Pham Minh Duc
College of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Faculty
Biography
Pham Minh Duc currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty at VinUniversity. This appointment follows his four-year tenure as a Teaching Assistant at the same institution from 2022 to 2026. He is a devoted scholar who approaches research and education with a deep sense of humility. He constantly seeks to learn from the intellectual predecessors who established the foundations of the discipline. His work reflects the definition by G.K. Chesterton that philosophy is simply thought that has been thought out. Consequently, he strives to build an academic environment defined by rigorous thinking and systematic inquiry.
He is currently completing his Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. This program spans the period from 2022 to 2025. Prior to this, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the same university between 2018 and 2022. His research portfolio includes participation in several significant academic projects. He contributed to studies regarding the Philosophy of Science and the critical updates to Dialectical Materialism. Furthermore, he played a role in the Vietnam National University-level research project titled “Developing Human Ecology from the Perspective of Marxist Philosophy in Vietnam.”
– Research field: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Metaphysics
– Research Project: The Incommensurability of Incommensurability, Being and Nothingness, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Taoism .
- Pham Minh Duc conducts specialized research into the textual history and conceptual architecture of Daoism (Daojiao – 道教). His project focuses specifically on two seminal works that define the intellectual trajectory of the tradition. These are the Scripture of Great Peace (Taiping Jing – 太平經) and the Seven Tablets in a Cloudy Satchel (Yunji Qiqian – 雲笈七籤). He examines the Scripture of Great Peace (Taiping Jing – 太平經) to reconstruct the early formation of Daoist theology (Shenxue – 神學). The study analyzes how the text formulates the ideal of Great Peace (Taiping – 太平) as a state of perfect cosmic equilibrium. It investigates the doctrine of the Celestial Masters (Tianshi – 天師) and the intricate relationship between heaven and the human realm through the mechanism of Cosmic Resonance (Ganying – 感應).
– General Philosophy
– Philosophy of Science
– Comparative Philosophy
– Asian Philosophy
– Daoism
– Confucianism
– 2022. Ha Chi, Dang and Duc, Pham Minh. “Bàn về hợp tác xã” hay sự phát triển và vận dụng sáng tạo logic biện chứng của Lênin (“Discussing on Cooperatives, or Lenin’s Development and Creative Application of Dialectical Logic”), Tạp chí Giáo dục (Vietnam Journal of Education)
– 2023. Duc, Pham Minh and Thuy, Tran Ngoc. Mối quan hệ giữa vật chất và tư duy trong “Vũ trụ học tinh thần” của Evald Ilyenkov (The relations of matter and thinking in Evald Ilyenkov’s Cosmology of Spirit), in: Proceedings of International Conference “Russian Philosophy and Vietnam: History, Issues and Prospects”, VNU-Publishers, Hanoi, 362 – 373. ISBN: 978-604-9993-21-3
– 2023. Dieu, Tran Thi and Duc, Pham Minh. Sự trao truyền giá trị văn hóa giữa các thế hệ dưới ánh sáng tác phẩm mới của Tổng Bí thư Nguyễn Phú Trọng (The transmission of cultural values across generations in the light of the new work by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong), Tạp chí Nghiên cứu Triết học (Journal of Philosophy Research), No 3, 19 – 27.
– 2023. Duc, Pham Minh and Loc, Le Hoang. Quan niệm về Vô vi của Lão Tử và Trang Tử (The Concept of Wu Wei in Laozi and Zhuangzi), Tạp chí Giáo dục (Journal of Education), No. 23 (Special Issue 10), 130-136. ISSN: 2354-0753.
– 2024. Dai, Le Dinh and Duc, Pham Minh. Thuyết siêu nhân bản: Một giả thuyết khoa học hay một niềm tin tôn giáo (Transhumanism: A Scientific Hypothesis or A Religious Belief), Tạp chí Nghiên cứu Triết học (Journal of Philosophical Research), No. 3 (Issue 8), 55-66. ISSN: 2734-990X
– 2024. Duc, Pham Minh and Linh Van, Truong. “Our Schools Need to Teach How to Think!” – Ilyenkov and Suggestions to the Development of Education in Vietnam Today”, in: Proceedings of International Conference “Vietnamese Philosophy of Education: From Tradition to Modern Time”, VNU-Publishers, Hanoi, 724-750. ISBN: 978-604-43-1676-5
– 2024. Duc, Pham Minh; Vu, Nguyen Mai Hong. “The Origin of Consciousness: From Tran Duc Thao to the Contemporary Frontier Debates Between Physical Reductionism and Dualistic Antireductionism”, in: Proceedings of International Conference “Tran Duc Thao – Some Philosophical and Historical Issues”, VNU-Publishers, Hanoi, 112-146. ISBN: 978-604-43-0962-0
– 2024. Duc, Pham Minh; Tuan, Nguyen Anh. Hòa quang đồng trần: từ Lão Tử, Trần Nhân Tông đến ngoại giao cây tre Việt Nam hiện nay (Soften the light, blend in with the dust: from Laozi, Tran Nhan Tong to bamboo diplomacy). Tạp chí nghiên cứu triết học (Journal of Philosophical Research), 4 (13), 50-58.
– 2024. Duc, Pham Minh; Tuan, Nguyen Anh. Tính tự trị của trí tuệ nhân tạo – Một góc nhìn từ trường phái đạo đức học của Kant (The Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence – a View from Kantian Ethics). Tạp chí Triết học (Journal of Philosophy, Vietnam), (393), 41-63.
– 2025. Duc, Pham Minh; Tuan, Nguyen Anh. Trí tuệ nhân tạo và Đạo đức học Hồ Chí Minh (Artificial Intelligence and Ho Chi Minh Ethics). Tạp chí Triết học (Journal of Philosophy, Vietnam), 4 (400), 59-74.
– 2018 – 2022: Bachelor of Arts: Philosophy, VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ha Noi. Graduation Thesis (Vietnamese): Quentin Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism in After Finitude.
– 2022 – 2025: Master of Arts: Philosophy at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ha Noi. Master Thesis (Vietnamese): Jacques Derrida’s Thought on Socialism in Specters of Marx
- Teaching Excellence Award 2023, 2024, 2025
