Klaus Kipling
Mongoose
The thing about Academic is that it mainly refers to the ivory towers of universities and writing sagacious tomes. It would exclude the 'field' researchers common to both sciences and history or archeology.
Knowledge is just so vague and wishy washy and could refer to anything, like a capacious knowledge of stamps, or my fairly complete but pretty much useless knowledge of tv shows featuring spaceships.
Lets not forget that most of the modern sciences used to be called natural history.
The thing about history is that we only have human history to look at (and not that much of it, compared to the timescales involved in geology, physics, or biology). Once we have alien or non-terrestrial history to chew on some kind of scientific method might start to become applicable, looking for immutable and universal laws and principles of societies, maybe even classifying them into orders and genera like living organisms.
This can be our sci fi handwave that allows to put history neatly among the sciences.
Edit: As for philosophy (and theology), it is good for describing a theory of how our society sees itself, and what it sees as important. As it is, like history, about ourselves rather than an attempt at an objective view of the world around us. But once we can be objective, with lots of aliens and other human cultures to compare, maybe it does become more scientific.
Knowledge is just so vague and wishy washy and could refer to anything, like a capacious knowledge of stamps, or my fairly complete but pretty much useless knowledge of tv shows featuring spaceships.
Lets not forget that most of the modern sciences used to be called natural history.
The thing about history is that we only have human history to look at (and not that much of it, compared to the timescales involved in geology, physics, or biology). Once we have alien or non-terrestrial history to chew on some kind of scientific method might start to become applicable, looking for immutable and universal laws and principles of societies, maybe even classifying them into orders and genera like living organisms.
This can be our sci fi handwave that allows to put history neatly among the sciences.
Edit: As for philosophy (and theology), it is good for describing a theory of how our society sees itself, and what it sees as important. As it is, like history, about ourselves rather than an attempt at an objective view of the world around us. But once we can be objective, with lots of aliens and other human cultures to compare, maybe it does become more scientific.
