Michael Roland F. Hernandez is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Ateneo de Naga University, south of Luzon, in Bicol, Philippines.
His research interests cover Classical Philosophy (Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas), Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. His teaching experience covers handling of the following subjects: the history of Western Philosophy, Thomistic Scholasticism, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Ecology, and the Philosophy of History.
He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Adamson University (Magna Cum Laude) and defended a thesis on Jacqu…
Michael Roland F. Hernandez is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Ateneo de Naga University, south of Luzon, in Bicol, Philippines.
His research interests cover Classical Philosophy (Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas), Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. His teaching experience covers handling of the following subjects: the history of Western Philosophy, Thomistic Scholasticism, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Ecology, and the Philosophy of History.
He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Adamson University (Magna Cum Laude) and defended a thesis on Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of western metaphysics in 1999 (Summa Cum Laude) at the Rogationist College Seminary-Manila in Parañaque. He took his Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School with a thesis on Edith Stein’s Concept of Intersubjectivity (Meritissimus) in March 2008. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University with a dissertation entitled: "Translating the Idiom of Oppression: A Genealogical Deconstruction of Filipinization and the 19th Century Construction of the Modern Philippine Nation.”
He was elected as one of the Board Members of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines (PAP, Inc.) in 2012 and has served in various capacities as the association's Public Relations Officer (PRO) in 2013-14, Linkages Officer for Luzon (2014-17). He recently finished his term as PAP’s Vice-President for 2017-2020 last April 2020. In February 2014, he founded Filocracia: An Online Journal of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (www.filocracia.org) where he serves as its Editor-in-Chief. He also served as former Editor-in-Chief of Suri: The Official Journal of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines for the issues from April 2015 - April 2017 (suri.pap73.org) and as Associate Editor of DOAJ and of various philosophy journals in the country such as: The Mabini Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines), and Siribayat Journal of Philosophy (published by the Lyceum of Aparri, North Cagayan, Philippines).
He was formerly a scholar of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Foundation Fund Scholar (SYLFF) (2009-2012) and a Faculty Scholar of the Ateneo de Naga University.
