When I was in graduate school, at UC San Diego, my political theory teacher, Tracy Strong, was telling us the story of Wittgenstein's doctoral examination at Cambridge. G.E. Moore, pronounced on the subject of the work submitted as Wittgenstein's thesis, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as Tracy was recounting it, 'this may or may not be a work of genius, but it certainly suffices for a Cambridge D.Phil'. 'Tracy', I interrupted, 'unlike Oxford, the doctoral degree at Cambridge is a PhD'. I got a severe glare from Dr Strong, (PhD, Harvard).
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Date: 2011-03-05 01:24 am (UTC)When I was in graduate school, at UC San Diego, my political theory teacher, Tracy Strong, was telling us the story of Wittgenstein's doctoral examination at Cambridge. G.E. Moore, pronounced on the subject of the work submitted as Wittgenstein's thesis, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as Tracy was recounting it, 'this may or may not be a work of genius, but it certainly suffices for a Cambridge D.Phil'. 'Tracy', I interrupted, 'unlike Oxford, the doctoral degree at Cambridge is a PhD'. I got a severe glare from Dr Strong, (PhD, Harvard).