How a Theologian Promoted the Doctorate in Philosophy (Dr. phil./PhD). Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Report on Academic Dignities from 1810: „Whoever wishes to become a doctor in the philosophical faculty must submit a Latin dissertation from the field of the science to which he particularly wishes to devote himself. If this is not rejected, the examination follows, which is limited to the same scientific field and to philosophy, insofar as it contains the principles thereof.“

Immanuel Kant was never a Doctor of Philosophy, but (only) Magister Artium. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the … Mehr