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Alison Wylie

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Alison Wylie
Born 1954 (age 69–70)
Swindon , England
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Thesis Positivism and the New Archeology  (1982)
Doctoral advisor Rom Harre
Main interests

Alison Wylie FRSC FAHA (born 1954) is a Canadian philosopher of archaeology . She is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia [1] and holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences. [2]

Wylie specializes in philosophy of science , research ethics , and feminism in the social sciences, particularly archaeology and anthropology .

Early life and education [ edit ]

Wylie was born in 1954 in Swindon , England. [3] She grew up in Canada and obtained her undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Sociology from Mount Allison University in 1976. She then studied at Binghamton University , where she obtained an MA degree in anthropology (1979), and a PhD in philosophy through the short-lived Program for History and Philosophy of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1982). Her doctoral dissertation was titled Positivism and the New Archeology, supervised by Rom Harre . [3]

Academic career [ edit ]

Wylie has held faculty appointments at University of Western Ontario (1985?1998), Washington University in St. Louis (1998?2003), Barnhard / Columbia University (2003?2005), the University of Washington (2005?2017) and Durham University (2013-2017). She has also held visiting positions at the Australian National University , Reading University , Stanford University , the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, UC Berkeley , New York University , the University of Denver , and Durham University . [4] She is currently a professor in the philosophy department of the University of British Columbia . [5]

Wylie co-chaired the Society for American Archaeology's (SAA) committee on ethics in archaeology , which drafted the Principles of Archaeological Ethics in use by the SAA. [6] Wylie received a Presidential Recognition Award from the SAA in 1995 for this work. [7]

She was the senior editor of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy between 2008 and 2013) and was named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the year by the Society for Women in Philosophy in 2013. [8] [9] She served as the president of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division between 2011 and 2012 [10] and is the current President of the Philosophy of Science Association (2019-2020). [11] In November 2019 Wylie was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . [12]

Wylie gave the 2019 Alan Saunders Memorial Lecture (Australasian Association of Philosophy and Australian Broadcast Corporation); [13] the 2018 Distinguished Lecture for the Forum for History of the Human Sciences; the 2017 Dewey Lecture, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association ; the 2016 Katz Distinguished lecture at the University of Washington ; the 2013 Springer Lecture, European Philosophy of Science Association; the 2013 Mulvaney Lecture, Australian National University; and the 2008 Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecturer, Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association.

Selected works [ edit ]

Books:
  • (2016). Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology, co-authored with Robert Chapman, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London: Bloomsbury.
  • (2015). Material Evidence, Learning from Archaeological Practice, co-edited with Robert Chapman, London: Routledge.
  • (2007). Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions , co-edited with Harold Kincaid and John Dupre, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • (2002). Thinking From Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology , Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
  • (1995). Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s , co-edited with Mark J. Lynott, Washington D.C.: Society for American Archaeology Special Report Series.
  • (1995). Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty , co-edited with members of the Chilly Collective, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
  • (1994). Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology, co-edited with Margaret C. Nelson and Sarah M. Nelson, Washington, D.C.: Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 5.

Special issues and Symposia:

  • Hypatia thematic clusters: Women in Philosophy: The Costs of Exclusion, and Epistemic Justice, Ignorance, and Procedural Objectivity (editor), Hypatia 26.2 (2011).
  • Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures, 25th Anniversary Special Issue of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Lori Gruen, 25.4 (2010).
  • Doing Archaeology as a Feminist, Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, guest edited with Margaret W. Conkey, 14.3 (2007).
  • Epistemic Diversity and Dissent, Special Issue of Episteme: Journal of Social Epistemology, guest editor, 3.1 (2006).
  • Feminist Science Studies, Special Issue of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, guest edited with Lynn Hankinson Nelson, 19.1 (2004).
  • Special Issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences: selected papers from the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, March issues since 2000 (PoSS 30.1 to 44.2).

Articles and Chapters:

  • “Crossing a Threshold: Collaborative Archaeology in Global Dialogue,” Archaeologies 15.5 (2019): 570-587.
  • “Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology”: Springer Handbook of Model-based Science, Part I, eds. Magnani and Bertolotti, 2017, pp. 989?1002.
  • “What Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory and the Formation of Gender Archaeology,” Scientiae Studia 15.1 (2017): 13-38.
  • “From the Ground Up: Philosophy and Archaeology,” Proceedings and Addresses of the APA 91 (2017): 118-136.
  • “Feminist Philosophy of Social Science”: Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, eds. Garry, Khader, and Stone, 2017, pp. 328?340.
  • “How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back: Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways”: Science, Technology and Human Values 42.2 (2017): 203-225.
  • “A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology”: in Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, eds. Padovani, Richardson, and Tsou, Springer, 2015, pp. 189?210.
  • “’Do Not Do Unto Others…’: Cultural Misrecognition and the Harms of Appropriation in an Open Source World,” with George Nicholas: in Appropriating the Past, eds. Scarre and Coningham, CUP, 2012, pp. 195-221.
  • “Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters,” Proceedings and Addresses of the APA 86.2 (2012): 47-76.
  • “Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology”: in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, eds. Dawid, Twining, and Vasilaki, OUP, 2011, pp. 371?394.
  • “What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work, and the Academy,” in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, ed. Grasswick, Springer, 2011, pp. 157?179.
  • “Archaeological Facts in Transit: The ‘Eminent Mounds’ of Central North America”, in How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel?, edita Howlett and Morgan, CUP, 2010, pp. 301?322.
  • “Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response,” co-authored with George Nicholas, in The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation eds. Young and Brunk, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 11?54.
  • “Agnotology in/of Archaeology,” Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, eds. Proctor and Schiebinger, Stanford UP, 2008, pp. 183?205.
  • “The Promise and Perils of an Ethic of Stewardship,” Embedding Ethics, eds. Meskell and Pells, Berg, 2005, pp. 47?68.
  • “Why Standpoint Matters,” in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, eds. Figueroa and Harding, Routledge, 2003, pp. 26?48.
  • “Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of Archaeology,” in Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, eds. Creager, Lunbeck, and Schiebinger, Chicago UP, 2001, pp. 23?45.
  • “Standpoint Matters, in Archaeology for Example,” Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society, eds. Strum and Fedigan, Chicago UP, 2000, pp. 243?260.
  • “Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of Science” American Antiquity 65.2 (2000): 227-237.
  • “Rethinking Unity as a Working Hypothesis for Philosophy of Science,” Perspectives on Science 7.3 (1999): 293-317.
  • “Science, Conservation, and Stewardship: Evolving Codes of Conduct in Archaeology,” Science and Engineering Ethics 5.3 (1999): 319-336.
  • “Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual?: Feminist Critiques of Science,” in Women in Human Evolution, ed. Hager, Routledge, 1997, pp. 29?55.
  • “The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies,” Osiris 12 (1997): 80-99.
  • “Ethical Dilemmas in Archaeological Practice: Looting, Repatriation, Stewardship, and the (Trans)formation of Disciplinary Identity,” Perspectives on Science 4.2 (1996): 154-194.
  • “The Constitution of Archaeological Evidence: Gender Politics and Science,” in The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, eds. Galison and Stump, Stanford UP, 1996, pp. 311?343.
  • “Epistemic Disunity and Political Integrity,” in Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings, eds. Schmidt and Patterson, SAR Press, 1995, pp. 255?272.
  • “Unification and Convergence in Archaeological Explanation: The Agricultural ‘Wave of Advance’ and the Origins of Indo-European Languages,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 34, Supplement (1995): 1-30.
  • "Doing Philosophy as a Feminist: Longino on the Search for a Feminist Epistemology,” Philosophical Topics 23.2 (1995): 345-358.
  • “'Invented Lands/Discovered Pasts': The Westward Expansion of Myth and History,” Historical Archaeology 27.4 (1993): 1-19.
  • “The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests: Recent Archaeological Work on Gender,” American Antiquity 57 (1992): 15-34.
  • “Reasoning About Ourselves: Feminist Methodology in the Social Sciences,” in Women and Reason, eds. Harvey and Okruhlik, Michigan UP, 1992, pp. 225?244.
  • “Gender Theory and the Archaeological Record,” Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, eds. Conkey andGero, Blackwell, 1991, pp. 31?54.
  • “Archaeological Cables and Tacking: The Implications of Practice for Bernstein's 'Options Beyond Objectivism and Relativism',” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1989): 1-18.
  • “Arguments for Scientific Realism: The Ascending Spiral,” American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1986): 287-297.
  • “The Reaction Against Analogy,” Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 8 (1985): 63-111.
  • “Between Philosophy and Archaeology,” American Antiquity 50 (1985): 478-490.
  • “Epistemological Issues Raised by a Structuralist Archaeology,” in Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, ed. Hodder, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 39?46.

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Alison Wylie" . Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  2. ^ Government of Canada, Industry Canada (29 November 2012). "Canada Research Chairs" . www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca . Retrieved 23 March 2019 .
  3. ^ a b "Alison Wylie, PhD , University of Washington.
  4. ^ "Alison Wylie" . Department of Philosophy, University of Washington . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  5. ^ "Alison Wylie" . Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  6. ^ Archaeology, Society for American. "Principles of Archaeological Ethics" . Saa.org . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  7. ^ Archaeology, Society for American. "Presidential Recognition Award" . Saa.org . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  8. ^ "Hypatia | Honor Roll" . Archived from the original on 12 April 2014 . Retrieved 8 May 2014 .
  9. ^ "Editors | Hypatia" . Archived from the original on 18 November 2016 . Retrieved 14 May 2017 .
  10. ^ "Divisional Committees: 2011-12 - The American Philosophical Association" . Apaonline.org . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  11. ^ Pfeifer, Jessica. "2016 PSA Election Results" . Philsci.org . Archived from the original on 11 August 2016 . Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
  12. ^ "Fellows: Alison Wylie" . Australian Academy of the Humanities . Archived from the original on 19 July 2018 . Retrieved 18 November 2019 .
  13. ^ "Archaeology in the interests of indigenous communities" . ABC Radio National . 1 August 2019 . Retrieved 20 January 2020 .

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