Cariño of Philosophy accepted in Sydney Intellectual History Network

Asst. Prof. Jovito Cariño of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts and Letters successfully captured a slot in the prestigious Sydney Intellectual History Network (SIHN), where he submitted a paper and secured a membership from this prestigious society of intellectuals. Carino was recently ushered to the Sydney Intellectual History Network  (SIHN), an academic organization composed mainly of professors, researchers and writers from a variety of disciplines that promote scholarship on intellectual history. Customarily, the areas of research in the list of SIHN include History of Economic Thought, Women and Intellectual History, Biography, Autobiography and the Individual Life, History (or Historiography) of Intellectual History and/or the History of Ideas; Visual Ideas and the History of Art; Ancient’ and ‘Modern’ Debates; The Project and Process of Enlightenment; History of Science and Intellectual History; History of Political Thought and History of Legal Thought.

While the organization’s name identifies itself with Sydney, in particular,  University of Sydney, membership is not in any way restricted to the locals of the city and is in fact fairly inclusive with members coming from as far as the United States and Europe not to mention the universities in various cities of Australia like Australian National University, University of Melbourne and Macquarie University. UniSyd’s main campus in Sydney also hosts the activities regularly sponsored by the network like public lectures, reading sessions, workshops, seminars, book launchings and international conferences.  

The SIHN recently held a conference with the theme Rethinking Intellectual History. This was held from April 7-9, 2015. As a member, Cariño presented a paper entitled St. Thomas, MacIntyre and Moderntyt. The said discourse is a fragment of  his dissertation, which deals mainly with his project of re-thinking Thomism’s relation with Enlightenment through the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre  He considered it an exceptional opportunity to have been a part of a gathering  where majority of the participants are acknowledged experts in their respective fields.   As he recounted: “It was a welcome learning experience to have been given an opportunity to learn from them and to have been exposed  to new insights on and different frontiers of doing philosophy. The benefits of my participation in the said event certainly will be helpful not only in my own research undertaking but more so, in the sustained attempt to improve philosophical education and research at the Faculty of Arts and Letters in particular and UST in general.”