Science is both a body of knowledge and an investigative process. It is systematic structuring of doubt and it advances by observation, hypothesis, and experimental falsification (photo is a frame from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, depicting Sir Belvedere preparing a scientific experiment).

Science does not ask “Why?”

Because it can only answer “What?” and “How?”

There comes a time for every graduate student pursuing a doctorate in philosophy (PhD) when they must narrow down their research interests and make a commitment to a dissertation topic. Usually, they’ve had a general sense of the field in which they’re working, they’ve read an extraordinary number of research papers and books on their topic…

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