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The Frederick S.

Pardee RAND Graduate School (Pardee RAND) is a private, higher-education institution that offers doctoral studies in policy analysis and practical experience working on RAND research projects to solve current public policy problems.

Its campus is co-located with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research institution in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Most of the faculty is drawn from the 950 researchers at RAND.

The 2014-15 student body included 110 men and women from 22 countries around the world.

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin ') is a type of doctoral degree awarded by universities in many countries.

Ph.D.s are awarded for a wide range of programs in the sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, etc), engineering, and humanities (e.g., history, geography, literature, musicology, etc), among others.

The Ph.D.

is a terminal degree in many fields.

The completion of a Ph.D.

is often a requirement for employment as a university professor, researcher, or scientist in many fields.

A clear distinction is made between an "earned doctorate", which is awarded for completion of a course of study and a thesis or dissertation, and an "honorary doctorate", a title granted by a university to a successful or notable person who has not completed doctoral academic work or completed a dissertation at the university.

Individuals with an earned doctorate can use the title of "Doctor" with their name and use the post-nominal letters "Ph.D.", "PhD" or "DPhil".

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.

Charles Sanders Peirce, generally considered to be its founder, later described it in his pragmatic maxim:

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in English-speaking countries at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, the majority of university philosophy departments today identify themselves as "analytic" departments.

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.

Terms in philosophy such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge" are used to refer to knowledge based on experience.

A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert.

The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.