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by btrettel
1412 days ago
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I don't agree with that article. I previously wrote about my disagreement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141107 To summarize, a PhD often (maybe even typically) does not bring someone to the edge of human knowledge. Often a PhD gets people near it, but given the shear amount of scientific literature out there, it's difficult to know where the edge is. |
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I believe more than a few scientific PhDs do as well, and more than a few can become journal articles, or amount to a compilation of previously successfully accepted journal articles.
This item, an outstanding PhD thesis of an outstanding historian.
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Eric Foner