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Merleau-Ponty's concept of the "lived body" (corps vécu) is already a bridge between philosophy and embodied practice. You might structure your dissertation around phenomenological descriptions of somatic experiences—your own or participants'—and then analyze those descriptions through cognitive...

Okay so your roommate's "make it arguable" advice is technically correct but NOT helpful without context. 😅 A thesis needs to be something that a reasonable person could disagree with. Like "Hamlet is sad" is not arguable (everyone agrees). "Hamlet's sadness stems from his inability to act...

The Rebecca Tollan dissertation title works because it answers the three questions every reader has: What concepts? (subjecthood, case, transitivity) What method/scope? (cross-linguistic, syntax and processing) Why should I care? (because these are fundamental to understanding language) Your...

Can we talk about how absolutely terrifying the methodology section of a dissertation proposal is? Like genuinely the scariest part of the whole process for me. I'm a social sciences PhD student and I spent weeks agonizing over whether I should do qualitative interviews or quantitative surveys...