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14Review of M. Bunge, Finding Philosophy in Social ScienceUniversity of Toronto Quarterly 67 (1): 121-124. 1997.
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34Archaeological Cables and Tacking: The Implications of Practice for Bernstein's 'Options Beyond Objectivism and Relativism'Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1): 1-18. 1989.
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What’s Feminist about Gender Archaeology?In Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary Archaeology Association. pp. 282-289. 2009.I explore the relevance of feminist standpoint theory for understanding the development of gender research in archaeology. This is an approach to thinking about questions about gender in archaeology that I find fruitfully articulated in Jane Kelley and Marsha Hanen's analysis of the 1989 Chacmool abstracts. As standpoint theory has been reformulated in recent years it offers a strategy for understanding critically and constructively-what is (and is not) feminist about gender archaeology, and it …Read more
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34Feminist Critiques of Science: The Epistemological and Methodological LiteratureWomen's Studies International Forum 12 (3): 379-388. 1989.Feminist critiques of science are widely dispersed and often quite inaccessible as a body of literature. We describe briefly some of the influences evident in this literature and identify several key themes which are central to current debates. This is the introduction to a bibliography of general critiques of science, described as the “core literature,” and a selection of feminist critiques of biology. Our objective has been to identify those analyses which raise reflexive (epistemological and …Read more
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Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in ArchaeologyIn Stephen Turner & Mark Risjord (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Elsevier. pp. 517-549. 2007.
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3521Standpoint Theory, in ScienceIn James Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Elsevier. pp. 324-330. 2001.Standpoint theory is based on the insight that those who are marginalized or oppressed have distinctive epistemic resources with which to understand social structures. Inasmuch as these structures shape our understanding of the natural and lifeworlds, standpoint theorists extend this principle to a range of biological and physical as well as social sciences. Standpoint theory has been articulated as a social epistemology and as an aligned methodological stance. It provides the rationale for ‘sta…Read more
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75The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardshipIn Lynn Meskell & Peter Pels (eds.), Embedding Ethics, Berg. pp. 47--68. 2005.
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36Ethical dilemmas in archaeological practice: Looting, repatriation, stewardship, and the (trans) formation of disciplinary identityPerspectives on Science 4 (2): 154-194. 1996.North American archaeologists have long defined their ethical responsibilities in terms of a commitment to scientific goals and an opposition to looting, vandalism, the commercial trade in antiquities, and other activities that threaten archaeological resources. In recent years, the clarity of these commitments has been eroded from two directions: professional archaeologists find commercial entanglements increasingly unavoidable, and a number of nonarchaeological interest groups object that they…Read more
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21Philippa Levine. The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838–1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, ix + 210 pp., $42.50 (cloth). - Robert E. Bieder Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. Norman, Oklahoma: Oklahoma University Press, 1986, xi + 290 pp., $21.95 (cloth) (review)Philosophy of Science 57 (3): 546-. 1990.
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17The Feminist Question in Science: What Does It Mean to 'Do Social Science as a Feminist"?In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (ed.), Handbook of Feminist Research, Sage Publications. pp. 567-578. 2007.
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63Coming to Terms with the Value(s) of Science: Insights from Feminist Science ScholarshipIn Harold Kincaid, John Dupre & Alison Wylie (eds.), Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 58-86. 2007.
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2On EthicsIn Larry Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli & Julie Hollowell-Zimmer (eds.), Handbook on Ethical Issues in Archaeology, Altamira Press. pp. 3-16. 2003.
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92Socially Naturalized Norms of Epistemic Rationality: Aggregation and DeliberationSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (S1): 43-48. 2006.In response to those who see rational deliberation as a source of epistemic norms and a model for well-functioning scientific inquiry, Solomon cites evidence that aggregative techniques often yield better results; deliberative processes are vulnerable to biasing mechanisms that impoverish the epistemic resources on which group judgments are based. I argue that aggregative techniques are similarly vulnerable and illustrate this in terms of the impact of gender schemas on both individual and colle…Read more
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278Community-Based Collaborative ArchaeologyIn Nancy Cartwright & Eleonora Montuschi (eds.), Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, Oxford University Press. pp. 68-82. 2014.I focus here on archaeologists who work with Indigenous descendant communities in North America and address two key questions raised by their practice about the advantages of situated inquiry. First, what exactly are the benefits of collaborative practice—what does it contribute, in this case to archaeology? And, second, what is the philosophical rationale for collaborative practice? Why is it that, counter-intuitively for many, collaborative practice has the capacity to improve archaeology in i…Read more
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233Interdisciplinary PracticeIn William Rathie, Michael Shanks, Timothy Webmoor & Christopher Witmore (eds.), Archaeology in the Making: Conversations Through a Discipline, Routledge. pp. 93-121. 2013.In commenting on the state of affairs in contemporary archaeology, Wylie outlines an agenda for archaeology as an interdisciplinary science rooted in ethical practices of stewardship. In so doing she lays the foundations for an informed and philosophically relevant “meta-archaeology.”
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