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2.10 The Dissertation

The Ph.D. Dissertation is a substantial body of research that engages with existing scholarship in philosophy and makes an original contribution to the body of scholarship with which it is concerned. Dissertations can either be written as a short monograph that builds an extended argument across several chapters or as a portfolio of papers on a unified theme. The minimum requirement for the dissertation is an introduction and three substantial papers or chapters.