Simon also argued that public administration could and should be stud ied from the viewpoint of scientific principles as they were rigorously applied in other social sciences. Thus the administrative behavior move- ment in public administration and its principal architect, Simon, paved the way not solely for progress in the study and theory building of public administration but also for polemics.7 Simon fomented a debate about the appropriateness of certain epistemic traditions or approaches to study and theory building that continues to mire the field even today, influencing the development or, more appropriately, the conceptualization of other intellectual undertakings in the field(e.g., policy analysis and public man- agement, which are addressed in chapter 3). But could a field built on pragmatism be studied from the standpoint of"science," as traditionally defined in the social sciences?