Philosophy underpins political theory, which is vital to modelling empirics and understanding the normative valuation of politics and political interaction.
It can be, but Applied Science is too general a term. It is taking what a bunch of guys are doing in a lab and turning it into something useful that can make a profit. ex. Two guys in a lab were...
I'm not quite shore what you're asking. Science is hard to define as it is a study of many areas through experimentation. Social science is the study of people and people, usually defined into...