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2Standpoint Matters, in Archaeology for ExampleIn Shirley C. Strum & Linda M. Fedigan (eds.), Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society, University of Chicago Press. pp. 243-260. 2000.
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9'Invented Lands/Discovered Pasts': The Westward Expansion of Myth and HistoryHistorical Archaeology 27 (4): 1-19. 1993.
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5Reflections on the Work of the SAA Committee for Ethics in ArchaeologyCanadian Journal of Archaeology 24 (2): 151-156. 2001.During the 1998 Victoria CAA conference, an afternoon was devoted to a plenary discussion on the future of archaeology in Canada, and particularly the role the CAA should take in this future. The plenary was divided into two sections. First, a series of presenters discussed the future of Canadian archaeology from their particular vantage at the intersection of government, academe, First Nations and private industry. The second half of the plenary consisted of a series of presentations from CAA c…Read more
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140Arguments for Scientific Realism: The Ascending SpiralAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 23 (3). 1986.Although I have little sympathy for Nagel's instrumentalism, his "dictum" on the debates over scientific realism (as Boyd refers to it) is disconcertingly accurate; it does seem as if "the already long controversy...can be prolonged indefinitely." The reason for this, however, is not that realists and instrumentalists are divided by merely terminological differences in their "preferred mode[s] of speech", indeed, this analysis appeals only if you are already convinced that realism of any robust …Read more
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5521Why standpoint mattersIn Robert Figueroa & Sandra G. Harding (eds.), Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, Routledge. pp. 26--48. 2003.Feminist standpoint theory has been marginal to mainstream philosophical analyses of science–indeed, it has been marginal to science studies generally–and it has had an uneasy reception among feminist theorists. Critics of standpoint theory have attributed to it untenable foundationalist assumptions about the social identities that can underpin an epistemically salient standpoint, and implausible claims about the epistemic privilege that should be accorded to those who occupy subdominant social …Read more
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16Facts of the Record and Facts of the PastInternational Studies in Philosophy 17 (1): 71-85. 1985.
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20Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of ScienceAmerican Antiquity 65 (2): 227. 2000.The recent Science Wars have brought into sharp focus, in a public forum, contentious questions about the authority of science and what counts as properly scientific practice that have long structured archaeological debate. As in the larger debate, localized disputes in archaeology often presuppose a conception of science as a unified enterprise defined by common goals, standards, and research programs; specific forms of inquiry are advocated (or condemned) by claiming afiliation with sciences s…Read more
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482What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work, and the AcademyIn Heidi E. Grasswick (ed.), Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, . pp. 157-179. 2011.Research on the status and experience of women in academia in the last 30 years has challenged conventional explanations of persistent gender inequality, bringing into sharp focus the cumulative impact of small scale, often unintentional differences in recognition and response: the patterns of 'post-civil rights era' discrimination made famous by the 1999 report on the status of women in the MIT School of Science. I argue that feminist standpoint theory is a useful resource for understanding ho…Read more
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17The Trouble With Numbers: Workplace Climate Issues in ArcheologyArcheological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 5 (1): 65-71. 1994.My aim here is to focus attention on a shift, over the last decade, in how gender inequity in understood in North American academic settings, and to draw out some implications for the analysis of the status of women in archaeology.
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690Editor’s pick: HypatiaThe Philosophers' Magazine 62 (62): 107-111. 2013.This article is a profile of the journal Hypatia for TPM: its founding, its mission, and central themes that figure in its close to 30 year publication history. When the first issues of Hypatia appeared in the mid-1980s they were the culmination, in the mid-1980s, of a decade-long process of visionary debate in the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) about what form a journal of feminist philosophy should take, and extended discussion of how to make it a reality. The guiding vision and a sign…Read more
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397Pornography Embodied: Joan Mason-Grant Remembered (1958–2009)Hypatia 26 (1): 130-131. 2011.When the cluster on “Sexual Expressions” began to take shape, one of the first people I thought of to serve as a referee was Joan Mason-Grant, given her longstanding philosophical and activist interest in pornography. It was with great sorrow that I learned, when I contacted her, that she had been diagnosed with a fast moving cancer. Joan was most interested to hear about this emerging “found cluster”; “it sounds like an interesting issue of Hypatia to look forward to, but unfortunately my own a…Read more
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470Introduction: 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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27The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests: Recent Archaeological Research on GenderAmerican Antiquity 57 (1): 15. 1992.In the last few years, conference programs and publications have begun to appear that reflect a growing interest, among North American archaeologists, in research initiatives that focus on women and gender as subjects of investigation. One of the central questions raised by these developments has to do with their "objectivity" and that of archaeology as a whole. To the extent that they are inspired by or aligned with explicitly political (feminist) commitments, the question arises of whether the…Read more
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517Discourse, Practice, Context: From HPS to Interdisciplinary Science StudiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.One of the most widely debated and influential implications of the "demise" of positivism was the realization, now a commonplace, that philosophy of science must be firmly grounded in an understanding of the history of science, and/or of contemporary scientific practice. While the nature of this alliance is still a matter of uneasy negotiation, the principle that philosophical analysis must engage "real" science has transformed philosophical practice in innumerable ways. This short paper is the …Read more
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