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Oh, so nice of you. it is great to know there is no arrogance and pretension. it seems that politics = computer = library in nature. Maybe we can also observe the evolution of department of commputer/library to department of computer/library science. Another meaning of science? really? English Science, Philosophical Science, Religious Science? Yes, right, science has many meanings. You can use it in any sense you want. That will be tough. As far as I know, science, also with a latin orgin, in ancient times indeed meant any systemic knowledge. BUT, the contemporary meaning of science has been strongly shaped by natural sciences, especially classical physics. I never gainsay the scientific status of political study, I argue that a science suffix is redundant and counter-productive. I hope the illogicalness and contradition would not rerepsent the best way of your thinking in political science. "Ok so I will try to write it more slowly so you can understand it better." Many thanks for your consideration! I feel like that your writing speed is irrelevant. That you express clearly and coherently does matter!

I am trying to say a scientific study does not need a Science as its disciplinary name suffix. It's about confidence of the discipline per se not about what science is. In ordinary life, we won't admit somebody is genius just because he names himself genius. Also, a genius does not use a name genius to show people he is one. Of course, you can argue from a constructivist perspective, but sometimes the broader audience does not buy that. Actually, if time and resource allow, we can conduct a survey to ask the public what comes to their mind when they are presented a phrase "political science."

why don't you just give me a quick example instead of refering to wiki's science? or is this quite beyond your intellectual reach? why don't you make a great suggeation that economics should change to economic science, physics to physical science, chemsitry to chemical science, or linguistics to linguistic science? Isn't Department of Government (Harvard, Cornell and Georgetown)or Department of Politics (NYU and Princeton) already cleary enough for so-called political science? It seems that you tend to belittle someone's idea because of his lower academic rank. Oh, well, I hope each one is born as a forever-right professor.

Ah,ha,do you really understand what i am saying? is my question a one people deem necessary to answer?

it could be a more meaningful and productive discussion if a speaker has trianing in both law and political science. In which way are they different? logic of difference or logic of agreement? or not syllogism? or no so-called theory development? BTW, in a past IR class taught by a well-known scholar, his TA reminded us of how pretentious political science is. No science calls itself science. ye, right, economics, sociology, physics, chemistry, biology, geology,etc. Can you imagine an counter example?

Now in political science, case study as a method is broadly and repeatedly discussed. Is it really worth it? As a legal method that has been invented and employed for centuries, in the end of 20th century it is Re-discovered by political scientists. Oh, is that we can call the progress? For reference, those great thinkers who have a law degree: Descartes, Leibniz, Weber, Marx, and even Kafka and Lukacs. In political scinece, a contemporary example, Thomas Carother. supplements are welcomed.

That's an interesting question. Or in the same logic, we can still ask, why most JDs but not PhDs teach in Law School? JD is equivalent to a Master? OMG, a JD degree requires more than 90 credits to graduate. How about a MA or MS degree? It seems that people need to dig more about the history of higher education. Doctor, a latin word, which has origin in Arabic, means the qualification to teach law and offer legal advice. In the earliest university in Rome, only three majors (could be four) can be granted a Doctor degree: Theology, Law (civil and canon), and Medicine. Doctor refers to a professional qualification to teach and practice. At then time, the highest degrees all other majors can be confered on is Magistrate or Master. In many countries, law prohibits any graduates other than those in the three majors from using the designation of Doctor. Why? because other disciplines (all under the general name of philosophy)were highly soft and socially useless. However, those students in philosophy (either in natural or in moral) were so frustrated that they added a strage suffix Master and Doctor to their names. Till 19th century, it is Leipzig University that granted the first Doctor of Philosophy or PhD in the world. Obviously, it tries to euqalize the majors in philosophy to three privileged subjects in terms of social recognition. Also, enhancing master to dotor also belies that the scholars in philosophy intended to imitate those three highly developed subjects to Professionalize their own discipline. This is why they use the defining word Philosophy, which indicates their intellectual feature as well as historical imprint. But don't get it wrong, PhD in any sense is not higher than Doctor in other professional majors.

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