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Originally Posted by whatmaycome14
Yeah, I guess I meant more why is somebody who is getting a PhD in Philosophy doing a paper on this...
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It's not intuitive. PhD means philosophy doctor, and it goes back a few hundred years to early colleges, where science was considered an arm of philosophy (use of logic, etc.). One science journal a few hundred years old is Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (now published in two segments:
Home | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and
Home | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences). See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society.
Dr. Jowsey's Phd is in automotive engineering (an applied science).
And of course, since things mushrooms, there are now PhDs in music, sports, etc.