Dear Reader!
As I have told you before, Sir Popper prepared an answer - and at last I have time to publish it. The topic is the same, the view is different.
What if the most annoyed student, who also thinks he has got nothing from his degree, had the luck to speak up?
What would you say?
[15.04.2010]
[2:02 a.m.]
Popper
Dear someone,
I am not very good at writing – I do that relatively rare – but sometimes I just can’t help myself. Yesterday I saw a post from my group fellow...
Dear Reader!
I am terribly sorry for such a delay in my posts, which was caused by a progressive disorder (international?).
The entry that you will find here is devoted mainly to the issue of getting a graduate degree in international relations (or a similar field). This post is written by Dr. Fox, while he was still a graduate student, so, please, be sceptic. As much as you can.
P.S. I assume, Sir Popper will soon respond to it.
[14.04.2010]
[7:82 p.m.]
Fox
My honorable reader,
I am graduating...
... as Russia would not shoot itself in the foot in such a way as to undermine its overall trade with the West. Also, by writing to Brussels it only further pushed EU-Russian relations in opposite directions. I would encourage all to refer to my post on social sciences, as this is an example of what I talked about.
Open Buffet or "New Model":
The current agreement could serve as a model for Moldavian, Georgian and even Armenian aspirations to join the EU. Umland believes that Armenia ...
... in that way)?
All said above brings up a long-disputed topic of arts-sciences controversy, or dichotomy (or polarity, if you like that word). I suppose you are familiar with such theory as positivism. Today, there is a rather vivid tendency among social sciences to use ideas from real sciences (math, physics, etc.) in an attempt to make this body of knowledge more scientific. Positivism may be good, but you should use this metaphorical way of describing politics with great care.
One of problems ...
... didn’t bore you, but this is what I’ve been thinking about lately.
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[16.05.2010]
[3:23 a.m.]
Popper
My friend,
There is a lot of stuff I’d like to argue with you about (like ‘polarity’, complex systems, math in social sciences), but I’ll stick to one thing – typologies.
It’s obvious that when you do science, you need typologies. Sometimes, however, we use too much of these and it doesn’t help us at all. ‘Bipolarity’ (and ...
... our long studies, unless we continue our academic voyage. It is however, worrying, to see a similar trend of impulsive and poorly constructed thought spilling over to tenured academia. Hence, this post explores the degree of certainty and validity in social sciences from my own personal experiences as well as from academic literature 'that is' wielding an indispensible torch through the dim caverns of modern day social sciences.
Reasoning Behind the Post:
In the midst of what ...
