John Min

Philosophy Professor at the College of Southern Nevada #CSNCoyote. Tweets are my own.

[John Min @JohnBMin]

Pleased to share that The Sciences of the Democracies (UCL) has crossed 10,000 reads from 125 countries! For the open access PDF visit: https://t.co/q7a2hZq5k1

[Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry]

"Chart of the Century" updated through December 2025.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

In 2026, Americans will have ten entrance fee-free days to enjoy national parks, wildlife refuges, and recreational sites across the country. As we look ahead to America 250, these days offer a chance to connect with the places that tell our nation’s story. 🇺🇸

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Sir Isaac Newton's insane study routine ✍️

“He worked seven days a week, 18 hours a day, and he pushed himself even further”

Newton got admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in the year 1661. In the year 1664, he got a scholarship to study for four more years to finish his MA but in the same year, England was hit by Bubonic plague due to which the University was closed for two consecutive years. Due to this reason, Newton had to go back to his home in Woolsthorpe. These two years turned out to be the most productive and mind-wrenchingly stressful years for Newton. During these two years, he spent most of his days, most of his hours, studying in a room with nothing but lighting candles, loads of books, and notes around. It is reportedly said that he used to get so engrossed in his works that he would forget and skip his meals. During this period, Newton used to spend 16–18 hours a day working and studying in his room totally undistracted. He came up with the theory of gravitation, his significant works in optics, and he also invented calculus during these bubonic plague times at his home. According to biographer Gale Christianson, Newton’s working habits were pathologically addictive and for him, there was no end to the day. He would just keep going on and on and on until he felt exhausted to death.

In the 1680s, when Newton was rigorously working to publish his lifelong works in his book Principia Mathematica, as mentioned by one of Newton’s employees, he would often go to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning. He barely attended any social events or participated in any recreational activities.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: https://t.co/TAUD4R7gxK

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

There were some questions about Kant on the recent Korean SAT. One of the questions came in for scrutiny after a philosopher challenged the official answer... https://t.co/wYMihu0Cgz

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.127
Discussions about democracy have never been more vibrant. 🗣️ Yet, debates often unfold in a highly simplistic or unreflective way.
🙋 Dimitris Kastritis argues for the need to keep raising 🆕 questions in #DemocraticTheory. 👇
https://t.co/RWMrWs6IKp

[Saint Louis University @SLU_Official]

The first snow of the season has hit St. Louis! ❄️ Keep warm and stay safe, all!

🎥: Dave S.

[Rajini Rao @madamscientist]

For the record the Doctor in PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) comes from the Latin docere, meaning to teach. Originating in 13th century, it was used exclusively for academics who had reached the highest level of education. Only later, expanded to include medical professionals.

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

The award for Outstanding Scientist Under the Age of 35 goes to... https://t.co/5DVJJ8T7qu

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“For more than a century, American higher education has been shaped by a Zeitgeist that disintegrates the liberal arts university. It denies that mathematics, the sciences, and the humanities form a unified whole ordered to human flourishing. Instead, it replaces integration with specialization, reducing education to a utilitarian enterprise.”

[Robert Talisse @RobertTalisse]

"Pragmatism, Truth, and Politics," now in print at *Transactions of the CS Peirce Society*. @MisakCheryl and I gave this as the inaugural Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture at Sheffield back in June. It's a programatic piece sketching the book we're writing...

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.111
✍️ To kickstart another round of essays, @JeanPaulRGagnon recaps 4 years’ worth of discussions in this series. He explains where this ever-growing community of scholars has got to so far – and where it aims to go next. 👇
https://t.co/AVsvbswsIg

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

From 2026 the interdisciplinary journal Democratic Theory will be published by @CambridgeUP.

We are also delighted to announce that all articles accepted for publication in Volume 13 onwards of @DemTheory will be #OpenAccess.

Find out more - https://t.co/FrmBr2z7pe

#APSA2025

[Gregg Caruso @GreggDCaruso]

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads https://t.co/WRmEOzFLZ6

[Enzo Rossi @enzoreds]

Look at Max Weber anticipating Hayek's argument in "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by some 30 years:

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

I remember attending a party at Chicago where several people were working on the Hittite dictionary. Knowing Greek and Latin was like having taken French in high school.
What a godforsaken wreck that university has become.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

It's getting hard for me to keep posting this stuff. So bleak.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and even art history majors are experiencing.

https://t.co/ar7Sqa2Zfj

[Ghost of the Australian Realists @analyticatheism]

A wonderful birthday wish to one of the most magnanimous Christian philosophers of the past century.

Prof. Eleonore Stump's work is a synthesis of the Christian intellectual tradition's beauty, rigor, and logic, all representative in their highest forms.