Stephen Downes

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I don't have a PhD but I have a PhD education - that is, I completed all the coursework for my PhD, passed five rigorous comprehensive exams, and prepared a dissertation proposal. I also spent four or five years teaching classes as part of my graduate assistantship.  What I didn't do was to complete the dissertation; my committee felt I shouldn't be studying network theories of mind. So I am in a position to evaluate (for myself at least) Kamadia's assertion based on the work involved, not the paper you get. Was it worth it? For me, yes. But note: I never paid tuition, and I was paid through my assisstantship throughout. But it made me twice the philosopher I was when I started. It was the difference between knowing about philosophy and doing philosophy.

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