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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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323Archaeological 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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462Epistemic 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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27One 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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4Contextualizing Ethics: Comments on ‘Ethics in Canadian Archaeology’ by Robert RosenswigCanadian Journal of Archaeology 21 115-120. 1997.
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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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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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16Review: Testing Scientific Theories, John Earman (Ed.): Explaining Confirmation Practice (review)Philosophy of Science 55 (2). 1988.The contributions to Testing Scientific Theories are unified by an interest in responding to criticisms directed by Glymour against existing models of confirmation–-chiefly H-D and Bayesian schemas–-and in assessing and correcting the “bootstrap“ model of confirmation that he proposed as an alternative in Theory and Evidence. As such, they provide a representative sample of objections to Glymour's model and of the wide range of new initiatives in thinking about scientific confirmation that it ha…Read more
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5Women and Violence: Feminist Practice and Quantitative MethodIn Sandra Burt & Lorraine Code (eds.), Changing Methods: Feminists Transforming Practice, Broadview Press. pp. 301-325. 1995.
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Feminism and Social ScienceIn Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. pp. 588-593. 1998.
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Archaeology and Philosophy of ScienceIn N. J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon Press. pp. 614-617. 2001.
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12The Method and Theory of V. Gordon Childe (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 67-69. 1986.
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Epistemic Disunity and Political IntegrityIn Peter Ridgway Schmidt & Thomas Carl Patterson (eds.), Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings, School of American Research Press. pp. 255-272. 1995.
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42Philosophy from the Ground Up: An Interview with Alison WylieAssemblages 5. 2000.Alison Wylie is one of the few full-time academic philosophers of the social and historical sciences on the planet today. And fortunately for us, she happens to specialise in archaeology! After emerging onto the archaeological theory scene in the mid-1980s with her work on analogy, she has continued to work on philosophical questions raised by archaeological practice. In particular, she explores the status of evidence and ideals of objectivity in contemporary archaeology: how do we think we know…Read more
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61Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology: essays in the philosophy, history, and socio-politics of archaeology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1989.EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Perhaps the single most broadly unifying feature of the early new archaeology was the demand that archaeologists not take the aims and ...
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27Commentary on 'Toward a Critical Archaeology' by Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter, and Paul A. ShackelCurrent Anthropology 28 247-298. 1987.Critical theory is construed in very broad terms in Leone, Potter, and Shackel's discussion. It is not restricted to the "critical theory" associated with the Frankfurt school or, latterly, with Habermas. It encom-passes any research program that adopts a critically self-conscious attitude toward its constituent presuppositions: as they describe it, "critical theory asks of any set of conclusions from what point of view they are constructed." To press for such reflexiveness is crucially importan…Read more
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5On 'Capturing Facts Alive in the Past': Response to Fotiadis and LittleAmerican Antiquity 59 (3): 556-560. 1994.Michael Fotiadis (1994) and Barbara Little (1994) both question the oppositions that structure current debate about the "objectivity" of archaeological science; they raise concerns about my own proposal for a "mitigated objectivism" where it reaffirms these oppositions. I welcome their discussion and offer three responses to clarify and situate my own position. Most valuable, they identify several lines of inquiry that should be pursued beyond the philosophical analyses I have developed, in this…Read more
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3208Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint MattersProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophy Association 86 (2): 47-76. 2012.Standpoint theory is an explicitly political as well as social epistemology. Its central insight is that epistemic advantage may accrue to those who are oppressed by structures of domination and discounted as knowers. Feminist standpoint theorists hold that gender is one dimension of social differentiation that can make such a difference. In response to two longstanding objections I argue that epistemically consequential standpoints need not be conceptualized in essentialist terms, and that they…Read more
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