%0 Journal Article %T Political Science: an Interdisciplinary Project %J Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities %I Iranian Institute for Social & Cultural Studies %Z 2008-4641 %A Barzagar, Ebrahim %A Sarparastsadat, Saied Ebrahim %D 2010 %\ 12/22/2010 %V 3 %N 1 %P 21-46 %! Political Science: an Interdisciplinary Project %K interdisciplinary studies %K Political Science %K Science of Politics %R 10.7508/isih.2011.09.002 %X The present article is the result of a research concern in the philosophy of science in which ontological, epistemological and methodological questions about interdiscilinariness and political science are posed and examined. With this outlook, this article focuses on the question whether political science or the science of politics is a university major or an interdisciplinary project. As it can be inferred from theoretical preliminaries, an interdisciplinary project entails an epistemological arena (convergence and combination of majors) and practical dimension (cooperation). Issues such as the definition of political science, its subject, its problems, epistemological changes, modern era changes, necessities of life, modern chain processes, activity of social and multidimensional human, plurality of levels, relationship, mutual dependence and dynamisms have made the necessity of field exchange, multidisciplinariness and interdisciplineriness in political science an undeniable strategy. Therefore, political science is an interdisciplinary project; A concept whose theoretical and practical preference over the field of “science of politics” has been indicated throughout this article. %U http://www.isih.ir/article_78_1198a3e768b2715e77bc29dcda24d766.pdf