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A Proliferation of New Archaeologies: Skepticism, Processualism, and Post-ProcessualismIn Norman Yoffee & Andrew Sherratt (eds.), Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?, Cambridge University Press. pp. 20-26. 1993.
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10Gender Theory and the Archaeological RecordIn Margaret Wright Conkey & Joan M. Gero (eds.), Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory : Conference Entitled "Women and Production in Prehistory" : Papers, . pp. 31-54. 1991.
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68‘Simple’ analogy and the role of relevance assumptions: Implications of archaeological practiceInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2 (2). 1988.There is deep ambivalence about analogy, both as an object of philosophical fascination and in contexts of practice, like archaeology, where it plays a seemingly central role. In archaeology there has been continuous vacillation between outright rejection of analogical inference as overtly speculative, even systematically misleading, and, when this proves un-tenable, various stock strategies for putting it 'on a firmer foundation'. Frequently these last are accomplished by assimilating analogy t…Read more
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An Expanded Behavioral Archaeology: Transformation and Redefinition Twenty Years OnIn James M. Skibo, William H. Walker & Axel E. Nielsen (eds.), Expanding Archaeology: A Behavioral Approach to the Archaeological Record, University of Utah Press. pp. 198-209. 1995.
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736Women in Philosophy: The Costs of Exclusion—Editor's IntroductionHypatia 26 (2): 374-382. 2011.Philosophy has the dubious distinction of attracting and retaining proportionally fewer women than any other field in the humanities, indeed, fewer than in all but the most resolutely male-dominated of the sciences. This short article introduces a thematic cluster that brings together five short essays that probe the reasons for and the effects of these patterns of exclusion, not just of women but of diverse peoples of all kinds in Philosophy. It summarizes some of the demographic measures of ex…Read more
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Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of ScienceIn Kang Ouyang & Steve Fuller (eds.), Contemporary British and American Philosophy and Philosophers, People's Press. 2002.
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49Rethinking objectivity: Nozick's neglected third optionInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (1). 2000.
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33The Philosophy of Ambivalence: Sandra Harding onThe Science Question in FeminismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 58-73. 1987.In the past three decades scholars in virtually every humanistic and social scientific research discipline, and in some natural sciences, have drawn attention to quite striking instances of gender bias in the modes of practice and theorizing typical of traditional fields of research. They generally begin by identifying explicit androcentric biases in definitions of the subject domains appropriate to specific scientific fields. Their primary targets, in this connection, have been research that le…Read more
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33Epistemological Issues Raised by a Structuralist ArchaeologyIn Ian Hodder (ed.), Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 39-46. 1982.Insofar as the material residues of interest to archaeologists are cultural and, as such, have specifically symbolic significance, it is argued that archaeology must employ some form of structuralist analysis (i.e. as specifically concerned with this aspect of the material). Wylie examines the prevalent notion that such analysis is inevitably 'unscientific' because it deals with a dimension of material culture which is inaccessible of any direct, empirical investigation, and argues that this res…Read more
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Philosophy of ArchaeologyIn Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 354-359. 1998.
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10On "Heavily Decomposing Red Herrings": Scientific Methodology in Archaeology and the Ladening of Evidence with TheoryIn Lester Embree (ed.), Metaarchaeology: Reflections by Archaeologists and Philosophers, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. pp. 269-288. 1992.Internal debates over the status and aims of archaeology—between processualists and post or anti-processualists—have been so sharply adversarial, and have generated such sharply polarized positions, that they obscure much common ground. Despite strong rhetorical opposition, in practice, all employ a range of strategies for building and assessing the empirical credibility of their claims that reveals a common commitment to some form of mitigated objectivism. To articulate what this comes to, an a…Read more
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743Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of ArchaeologyUniversity of California Press. 2002.In this long-awaited compendium of new and newly revised essays, Alison Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know. Preprints available for download. Please see entry for specific article of interest.
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1063’Do Not Do Unto Others…’: Cultural Misrecognition and the Harms of Appropriation in an Open Source WorldIn Geoffrey Scarre & Robin Coningham (eds.), Appropriating the past: philosophical perspectives on the practice of archaeology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 195-221. 2013.In this chapter we explore two important questions that we believe should be central to any discussion of the ethics and politics of cultural heritage: What are the harms associated with appropriation and commodification, specifically where the heritage of Indigenous peoples is concerned? And how can these harms best be avoided? Archaeological concerns animate this discussion; we are ultimately concerned with fostering postcolonial archaeological practices. But we situate these questions in a br…Read more
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13On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological ScienceCurrent Anthropology 33 (2): 209-214. 1992.
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31Testing Scientific Theories, John Earman (Ed.): Explaining Confirmation Practice:Testing Scientific Theories John EarmanPhilosophy of Science 55 (2): 292-. 1988.The contributions to Testing Scientific Theories are unified by an in-terest 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 (1980). 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…Read more
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