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2Archaeological 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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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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474Standpoint 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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2The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardshipIn Lynn Meskell & Peter Pels (eds.), Embedding ethics, Berg. pp. 47--68. 2005.
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11Ethical 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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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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3Philippa 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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5The 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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6Coming 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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68Interdisciplinary 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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12Socially 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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81Community-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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439Feminist 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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2Review 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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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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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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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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132Unification 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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