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>A PhD is supposed to signify that you contributed new scientific value You forgot about the humanities, but it's hard to blame you. So do most grant offices.
by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
>A PhD is supposed to signify that you contributed new scientific value
You forgot about the humanities, but it's hard to blame you. So do most grant offices.
- bonoboTP 7mo agoThat's way too far from the article in question and I don't think it helps to discuss them together. Now if you propose that sciences and humanities should be brought more into conversation I can get on board but it's not easy because both sides approach it from a high horse attitude. In practice these PhDs use the same label but have diverged a long time ago and their cultures, expectations and problems are quite different. As a STEM person, I also don't exactly understand what gets you a humanities PhD. I assume something like coming up with a new interpretation of a text, event or intellectual movement, connecting dots together in new ways that appears insightful to other scholars. But it's probably different in history, literature or other branches of the humanities as well. As I understand novelty is always part of it, as is significance in some way. You need to defend some kind of novel thought of yours, in a thesis.