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765Archaeology and Critical Feminism of Science: Interview with Alison WylieScientiae Studia 12 (3): 549-590. 2014.In this wide-ranging interview with three members of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sao Paolo (Brazil) Wylie explains how she came to work on philosophical issues raised in and by archaeology, describes the contextualist challenges to ‘received view’ models of confirmation and explanation in archaeology that inform her work on the status of evidence and contextual ideals of objectivity, and discusses the role of non-cognitive values in science. She also is pressed to explain w…Read more
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2The 'Illusion of Concreteness' and the Prospects for an Anthropology of Archaeology: Review of Explanation in Archaeology by Guy GibbonAmerican Anthropologist 94 (1). 1992.
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30Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Objectivism in ArchaeologyIn Michael McIntyre & Lee McIntyre (eds.), Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, Mit Press. pp. 747-765. 1994.
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63Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of ResponseIn James O. Young & Conrad G. Brunk (eds.), The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Historical Contexts of Cultural Appropriation in Archaeology A Typology of Cultural Appropriation in Archaeology Modes of Resolution Conclusions Acknowledgments References.
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The Demystification of the ProfessionIn Joan M. Gero, David M. Lacy & Michael L. Blakey (eds.), The Socio-Politics of Archaeology, University of Massachusetts. pp. 119-129. 1983.
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12Commentary on 'Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art' by J.D. Lewis-Williams and T.A. DowsonCurrent Anthropology 29 231-232. 1988.
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3On a Hierarchy of Purposes: Typological Theory and PracticeCurrent Anthropology 33 (4): 486-491. 1992.
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1680Evidential Reasoning in ArchaeologyBloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2016.Material traces of the past are notoriously inscrutable; they rarely speak with one voice, and what they say is never unmediated. They stand as evidence only given a rich scaffolding of interpretation which is, itself, always open to challenge and revision. And yet archaeological evidence has dramatically expanded what we know of the cultural past, sometimes demonstrating a striking capacity to disrupt settled assumptions. The questions we address in Evidential Reasoning are: How are these succe…Read more
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29Bootstrapping in Un-Natural Sciences: Archaeological Theory TestingPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Several difficulties have been raised concerning applicability of Glymour's model to developing and "un-natural" sciences, those contexts in which he claims it should be most clearly instantiated. An analysis of testing in such a field, archaeology, indicates that while bootstrapping may be realized in general outline, practice necessarily departs from the ideal in at least three important respects 1) it is not strictly theory contained, 2) the theory-mediated inference from evidence to test hyp…Read more
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711Introduction: Doing Archaeology as a FeministJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14 (3). 2007.Gender research archaeology has made significant contributions, but its dissociation from the resources of feminist scholarship and feminist activism is a significantly limiting factor in its development. The essays that make up this special issue illustrate what is to be gained by making systematic use of these resources. Their distinctively feminist contributions are characterized in terms of the recommendations for “doing science as a feminist” that have taken shape in the context of the long…Read more
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45Social constructionist arguments in Harding's science and social inequalityHypatia 23 (4). 2008.Harding’s aim in Science and Social Inequality is to integrate the insights generated by diverse critiques of conventional ideals of truth, value freedom, and unity in science, and to chart a way forward for the sciences and for science studies. Wylie assesses this synthesis as a genre of social constructionist argument and illustrates its implications for questions of epistemic warrant with reference to transformative research on gender-based discrimination in the workplace environment.
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324Archaeological Facts in Transit: The ‘Eminent Mounds’ of Central North AmericaIn Peter Howlett & Mary S. Morgan (eds.), How well do facts travel?: the dissemination of reliable knowledge, Cambridge University Press. pp. 301-322. 2011.Archaeological facts have a perplexing character; they are often seen as less likely to “lie,” capable of bearing tangible, material witness to actual conditions of life, actions and events, but at the same time they are notoriously fragmentary and enigmatic, and disturbingly vulnerable to dispersal and attrition. As Trouillot (1995) argues for historical inquiry, the identification, selection, interpretation and narration of archaeological facts is a radically constructive process. Rather than …Read more
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Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism?: The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic AnalysisIn Mark P. Leone & Parker B. Potter (eds.), Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Kluwer Academic. pp. 23-50. 1999.
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52Feminism in philosophy of science: Making sense of contingency and constraintIn Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Hornsby (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 166--184. 2000.
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Review of Naturalism and Social Science by David ThomasInternational Studies in Philosophy 14 104-106. 1982.
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504Epistemic Justice, Ignorance, and Procedural Objectivity—Editor's IntroductionHypatia 26 (2): 233-235. 2011.The groundwork has long been laid, by feminist and critical race theorists, for recognizing that a robust social epistemology must be centrally concerned with questions of epistemic injustice; it must provide an account of how inequitable social relations inflect what counts as knowledge and who is recognized as a credible knower. The cluster of papers we present here came together serendipitously and represent a striking convergence of interest in exactly these issues. In their different ways, …Read more
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11Putting shakertown back together: Critical theory in archaeologyJournal of Anthropological Archaeology 4 (2): 133-147. 1985.
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The Interpretive DilemmaIn Valerie Pinsky & Alison Wylie (eds.), Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology: essays in the philosophy, history, and socio-politics of archaeology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 18-28. 1989.
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65Doing Philosophy As a Feminist: Longino on the Search for a Feminist EpistemologyPhilosophical Topics 23 (2): 345-358. 1995.
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12One World and Our Knowledge of It (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 83-85. 1986.
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1Reassessing the Profile and Needs of Battered WomenCanadian Journal of Community Mental Health 7 (2): 292-303. 1988.
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10Review: Time and Traditions by Bruce G. Trigger (review)International Studies in Philosophy 11 193-195. 1979.
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4Contextualizing Ethics: Comments on ‘Ethics in Canadian Archaeology’ by Robert RosenswigCanadian Journal of Archaeology 21 115-120. 1997.
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Afterword: On WavesIn Pamela L. Geller & Miranda K. Stockett (eds.), Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 167-176. 2006.
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27Feminist theories of social power: Some implications for a processual archaeologyNorwegian Archaeological Review 25 (1): 51-68. 1992.Recent feminist analyses of power constitute a resource for theorizing power that archaeologists cannot afford to ignore given the importance of ‘post‐processual’ arguments that social relations, in which power is a central dimension, are as constitutive of system level dynamics as is the environment in which cultural systems are situated. I argue that they are important on two fronts: they articulate a dynamic, situational conception of power that resists reification, and they suggest a strateg…Read more
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