PROFESSOR Emeritus Alfredo Co will deliver this year’s Discurso de Apertura or inaugural lecture on Aug. 5. Co, who teaches Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy at the University, is UST’s first professor emeritus in philosophy. Co’s discourse is titled “Indigenous Filipino Philosophy: From Excavation to Void to Presencing,” according to the Office of the Secretary General. He completed a postdoctorate in classical Chinese philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a special scholar at Soka University of Japan. The Discurso de Apertura is the inaugural lecture delivered before faculty members and students as part of the University’s opening festivities.