Kim Jayson Villezca
Department of Education Regional Office III, Philippines
Kim Jayson G. Villezca hails from Mabalacat City, Pampanga, Philippines. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Mother of Good Counsel Seminary, Magna Cum Laude. He was hailed the Philosopher of the Year (2016) and the Class Valedictorian from the same institution. Moreover, he earned his master’s degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, Magna Cum Laude. He defended his thesis On the Irony, Unsayability and Silence of Music: An Investigation into the Limits of Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics of Music – with a distinction Bene Meritus (Magna Cum Laude).
He first published his paper entitled Redescription Against Further Dehumanization: On Richard Rorty’s Social Hope in PAMISULU, an interdisciplinary journal of Theology and Philosophy. In the same publication, he published his second paper entitled On the Dynamics of The Intersubjective-Recognitive Model of Autonomy and Social Justice: Revisiting Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition. Recently, the Journal of ASEAN Studies published his paper entitled On Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Religious Other: Religious Transcendence in Hermeneutics and the Challenges of Inter-Religious Dialogue which he also presented at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Ayutthaya, Thailand, last August 2018. Moreover, he published his fourth paper The Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue: On Hans-Georg Gadamer and Raimon Panikkar in Jñānam, Vol. II, Philosophy of Religion and Identity Crisis- A Northeast Perspective, Assam, India. In July 2019, he presented his paper entitled The Bio[linguistic]-politics of De- Filipinizing Filipino Nationalism: Understanding Kapampangan Struggle for Recognition Against the Totalizing Process of National Identity Formation in the Philippines at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Recently, he presented his paper in Kapampangan Struggle for Recognition: On Language and Politics at the Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2021). He also presented a portion of his master’s thesis at the University of Arts Targu-Mures, Romania (2021).
He is an associate member of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington D.C, USA; a member of the European Society for Aesthetics, Fribourg University, Switzerland; and, a research consultant at ETCOR Educational Research Center, Pampanga, Philippines. Presently, he works at the Department of Education Regional Office III as Project Development Office II of the Public Affairs Unit.
