Research is Philosophy
3 min readJun 23, 2020
“We often forget that a PhD is a degree in philosophy and not information gathering. I personally feel we need our own time to cultivate other interests like reading, painting or whatever it is, and engage in discussions beyond science.
But I didn’t always appreciate the importance of philosophy in research. I was naive when I started out, thinking the whole point of a PhD is to join a laboratory that publishes well and…