Ninoval Flores Pacaol
PhD Candidate
Profile
Niñoval F. Pacaol is a licensed professional teacher. He received his undergraduate degree in Secondary Social Studies Education and his master’s degree in Educational Management from Leyte Normal University in the Philippines.
Prior to starting his PhD, he worked in three Philippine higher education institutions, including state universities and a community college, where he primarily taught social science, research, and professional education courses. Alongside his teaching, he also held leadership roles in research offices with managerial responsibilities.
His doctoral dissertation will defend the moral status of de-extinct animals using a non-Western (African) moral theory, while examining its implications for dominant debates in artificial intelligence, enhancement, and medicine.
His research interests broadly include empirical bioethics, particularly exploratory research on emerging technologies, and theoretical bioethics, such as the normative analysis of the varied applications and misapplications of biotechnologies. He is also interested in climate politics and ethics, especially the concept of the state of exception and climate engineering, as well as critical pedagogy, including social reconstructionist approaches to understanding transformations in education. His work further engages with political theory and death studies.
His ideas and ongoing projects are shaped by his years of teaching and research, as well as ongoing dialogue with mentors, colleagues, and students. In his personal intellectual practice, he regularly engages with scholarship across the social sciences and humanities, particularly moral philosophy, and occasionally examines popular culture, including anime, as a site for philosophical and ethical analysis.