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489Introduction: Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures: 25th Anniversary Special IssueHypatia 25 (4): 725-732. 2010.This special issue marks the culmination of Hypatia's twenty-fifth anniversary year. We kicked off the celebration of Hypatia's quarter century as an autonomous journal with a conference, "Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures," which drew close to 150 attendees—a capacity crowd, and more than twice what we'd expected in the planning stages! The conference provided an opportunity to reflect on how Hypatia came to be and how it has shaped feminist philosophy.
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Contemporary Feminist PhilosophyEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 6 (2): 215-229. 1988.
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13Matters of Fact and Matters of InterestIn Stephen Shennan (ed.), Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, Unwin Hyman. pp. 94-109. 1989.
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1516A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in ArchaeologyIn Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson & Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives From Science and Technology Studies, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 310. Springer. pp. 189-210. 2015.Innovative modes of collaboration between archaeologists and Indigenous communities are taking shape in a great many contexts, in the process transforming conventional research practice. While critics object that these partnerships cannot but compromise the objectivity of archaeological science, many of the archaeologists involved argue that their research is substantially enriched by them. I counter objections raised by internal critics and crystalized in philosophical terms by Boghossian, dise…Read more
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4Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual?: Feminist Critiques of ScienceIn Lori D. Hager (ed.), Women in Human Evolution, Routledge. pp. 29-55. 1997.I am often asked what feminism can possibly have to do with science. Feminism is, after all, an explicitly partisan, political standpoint; what bearing could it have on science, an enterprise whose hallmark is a commitment to value-neutrality and objectivity? Is feminism not a set of personal, political convictions best set aside (bracketed) when you engage in research as a scientist? I will argue that feminism has both critical and constructive relevance for a wide range of sciences, and that f…Read more
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744Rethinking unity as a "working hypothesis" for philosophy: How archaeologists exploit the disunities of sciencePerspectives on Science 7 (3): 293-317. 1999.As a working hypothesis for philosophy of science, the unity of science thesis has been decisively challenged in all its standard formulations; it cannot be assumed that the sciences presuppose an orderly world, that they are united by the goal of systematically describing and explaining this order, or that they rely on distinctively scientific methodologies which, properly applied, produce domain-specific results that converge on a single coherent and comprehensive system of knowledge. I first …Read more
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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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39Feminist 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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14Review of M. Bunge, Finding Philosophy in Social ScienceUniversity of Toronto Quarterly 67 (1): 121-124. 1997.
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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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38Ethical 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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Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in ArchaeologyIn Stephen P. Turner & Mark W. Risjord (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Elsevier. pp. 517-549. 2006.
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3547Standpoint 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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18The 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 Dupré & Alison Wylie (eds.), Value-Free Science: Ideals and Illusions?, Oxford University Press. 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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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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77Socially 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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307Community-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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247Interdisciplinary 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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Agnotology in/of ArchaeologyIn R. Proctor & L. Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, Stanford University Press. pp. 183-205. 2008.
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796Feminist perspectives on scienceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.**No longer the current version available on SEP; see revised version by Sharon Crasnow** Feminists have a number of distinct interests in, and perspectives on, science. The tools of science have been a crucial resource for understanding the nature, impact, and prospects for changing gender-based forms of oppression; in this spirit, feminists actively draw on, and contribute to, the research programs of a wide range of sciences. At the same time, feminists have identified the sciences as a sour…Read more
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9Review of Women in Prehistory by Margaret Ehrenberg, and Women in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-JonesJournal of Field Archaeology 18 (4): 501-507. 1991.
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18An Analogy by Any Other Name is Just as Analogical: A Commentary on the Gould-Watson Dialogue,Anthropological Archaeology 1 382-401. 1982.
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1053Unification and Convergence in Archaeological Explanation: The Agricultural “Wave-of-Advance” and the Origins of Indo-European LanguagesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1): 1-30. 1996.Given the diversity of explanatory practices that is typical of the sciences a healthy pluralism would seem to be desirable where theories of explanation are concerned. Nevertheless, I argue that explanations are only unifying in Kitcher's unificationist sense if they are backed by the kind of understanding of underlying mechanisms, dispositions, constitutions, and dependencies that is central to a causalist account of explanation. This case can be made through analysis of Kitcher's account of t…Read more
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ForewordIn Kurt E. Dongoske, Mark Aldenderfer & Karen Doehner (eds.), Working Together: Native Americans and Archaeologists, Society For American Archaeology. 2000.
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4Reasoning About Ourselves: Feminist Methodology in the Social SciencesIn Elizabeth D. Harvey & Kathleen Okruhlik (eds.), Women and Reason, . pp. 225-244. 1992.
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13The Integrity of Narratives: Epistemic Constraints on MultivocalityIn Junko Habu, Clare Fawcett & John Matsunaga (eds.), Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationality, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies, Springer. pp. 201-212. 2008.
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