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Introduction Social sciences, as all sciences, have their own epistemology, methodology and philosophy. Epistemology is the study of the foundations of knowledge and philosophy is the theoretical background of each science. There have been many criticisms about the substance of the social sciences especially from the positivists. They try all the time to convince everybody that a science which has no rules and natural laws can not be called 'science'. Epistemology and philosophy function as repulsion to the attempts of the positivists. They help us to understand and explain that social sciences are not natural sciences with inviolable laws; nevertheless they are a different kind of science that is based on a theoretical background and have to do with human behavior and reaction that can not be determined by any rule. Additionally, in the study of International Relations that is a part of the social sciences the situation is about the same....

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