Norberto Castillo

Norberto Mendiola Castillo, O.P. (born November 20, 1943) was the 91st Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), the oldest and the largest Catholic university in Asia, from 1982–1990.

Biography Castillo was born on November 20, 1943 in Tacloban City, Leyte. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 8, 1973.

From 1978 to 1982, he was the director and principal of UST Angelicum College in Quezon City and became its academic consultant from 1994 to 2002. At the university, he was elected as dean of the Faculty of Philosophy from 1994 to 1996 and 2008 to 2012, and became the vice rector for religious affairs in 2010. "Visuals and Visualizablity as Scientific Themata" (May 1988) "Socrates: Prophet or King?" (January 1990) "Unique Obsessions: Behind Scientific Discoveries" (January 1991) "On Scanning Scientific Discovering: Plastic Control, Substitutionality and the Bootstrap Problematic" (January 1992) "Aristotle's Open Society" (May 1996) "A Rereading of Scientific Objectivity. Scientific Truth as Subjectivity" (September 1996)