Ph.Ph.D.

Posted at 3:49 pm on Thursday, May 29, 2008, in Random Thoughts.

Here’s a thought… What do you call a person who has a Ph.D. in philosophy? I know what you are thinking — (a) waste of space, or (b) seven years lost — but that is not what I am getting at. But you are close.

Since a Ph.D. is a “doctor of philosophy,” having a Ph.D. in philosophy means having a “doctor of philosophy in philosophy.” What can be worse than that?

Or, is it that having a Ph.D. in philosophy means that you are simply a Ph.D.? In that case, see answers (a) and (b) above.

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