Villaver, Ranie B.

Full Professor

rbvillaver@usc.edu.ph

Degrees

A.B. Philosophy, University of St. La Salle,1998
M.A. Philosophy, University of San Carlos, 2006
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of New South Wales,Australia, 2012

Research Interests:

Zhuangzi, Epistemology, Logic, Ethics

Recent Publications:

1. (2023). “Zhuangzi as externalist: Reconciling two interpretations of the Happy Fish debate,” Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East.
2. (2023)(co-authored with Orlando Ali Mandane, Jr.). “The Zhuangist Primitivist attitude towards technology: further questions for thinking about technological orientation,” Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 1: pp. 77-96
3. (2022). “Reasons for Teaching Critical Thinking: A Proposal in Confucian Ethics,” Lukad: An Online Journal of Pedagogy 2, no. 2: pp. 29-41

4. “Li 禮 and Filipino behavioural propriety.” International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 16, no. 2 (July 2020): 85-115 (Theme: Indigenous, Local, and Regional Traditions: Views from Ritual and Ceremony; organized and edited by Peter Wong Yih Jiun).
5. “The Challenge of selfish actions to the Fight against COVID-19 and Mencius’s condemnation of Yang Zhu.” Social Ethics Society Journal (July 2020): 32-52.
6. “Does guiji mean egoism?: Yang Zhu’s conception of self,” Asian Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2015): 216-223.

Villaver, R. B. Zhuangzi and Philosophy. PHAVISMINDA Journal 8 (2009): 115-123.
2. Villaver, R. B. Wuwei in the Daodejing: Understanding Daoist Ethics. PHAVISMINDA Journal 6 (2007): 31-46.
3. Villaver, R. B. Daoist Wuwei and Filipino Gender Sensitivity. USC Graduate Journal 23 (2006): 1-20.

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