How does a PhD even work? Do you like... invent new science?

>>8969193
It stands for Doctor of Philosophy. It means that when some philosophy gets sick, you help it get better through the use of medicine or physical techniques.

>>8969193
Yes. That is exactly how it works.

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>>8969193

>he hasn't invented new fields of science

you brainlets crack me up everytime

>>8969196
But what if he has something uncurable?
does that mean u dont get phd?

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>>8969193
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>>8969209
But 4real tho, nobody here actually knows what a phd is

>>8969193
I always wondered how the fuck PhDs work in liberal arts. Can someone explain that to me.

>>8969196
Lul

>>8969193
Its just another degree you get, basically to prove that you can do serious research. The thesis produced is usually just some trivial shit, for example nearly every thesis a PhD has posted on here before.

>>8969231
It depends on the field. Its often either producing a work or developing an interpretation of history/economic trend/philosopical question.

>>8969193
You write a thesis from what I've gathered detailing some sort of subject. You don't have to make a breakthrough I don't think, but if you seem knowledgeable from your thesis, I think they award you the PHD

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>>8969231
I was once at a musem where there was a guide
that had a phd in some art stuff.
Her phd was basicly 100 pages written about a painting.
She told us that he first did an overview over all the colors, brush technice and so on.
Togheter with the context of the painter or some shit she made an interpration of that the pic ment.
ex
>"I actually made an orignal discovery where i found a new meaning in the painting buy comparing the nuance of the colors to brushstrokes"

>>8969242
i made a fuck ton of spelling errors, but im fucked in the head right now so whatever

>>8969246
Kek made me laugh when I was just about to fall asleep. God bless you anon

>>8969193
yeah, basically.

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>>8969242
I'm sure analyzing those brushstrokes will enable further developments that will aid humanity in the coming future.
Fuck superbugs that are estimate to kill 300 000 people in first world countries worldwide by 2030 or terraforming mars, or the energy crisis of the coming future, hold the fucking phone because paint brushes and painting techniques are more important.

>>8969420
>implying we can't do both

>>8969420
you are just super stupid :( sorry

>>8969231
To get a PhD you write a work communicating some useful original insight which contributes to the field in which you are receiving your degree. It doesn't really matter what the field is, it works the same way. Maybe to make a useful contribution in the sciences you'll have to do some experiments and draw conclusions from your observations, maybe in the liberal arts you'll have to read some book or study some work of art and draw conclusions from your observations.

>>8969420
Maybe other people have different ideas of what's important. Or maybe they have a different set of abilities and interests and they would have nothing useful to contribute to whatever you decided is important. Or maybe they just don't give a shit about what matter or doesn't matter. You're free to study superbugs or terraforming or whatever you want to yourself instead of complaining about how other people should be studying it for your benefit.

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>>8969437
I'm sorry you'll end up making less than someone is hospitality you are just so stupid :^( sorry.

>>8969450
I am joking of course any PhD is respectable even liberal Arts, a PhD shows you put time and effort into something, the content is debatable, In my uni they're cutting A LOT of positions in liberal arts and the social sciences.

I just wanted to bring up how ridiculously transparent academia and civics is with its priorities, at our current state if we don't find a solution for some of these problems like the antibiotics thing infant deaths will start increasing again to rates from the early twentieth century, the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with weak immune systems will start dying, so at what point in time are priorities going to be set?

It doesn't matter if the issue lies outside of your academic expertise, I guarantee the consequences of these problems will affect you.

Risk assessment is an important part of living in a functional society, if we don't find solutions to these problems or at least contribute something useful to them in our life times were going back to a time before antibiotics we'll be fucked. This is just one contemporary issue of modern science.