A Wylie
Biographic Data
| ID | 915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Wylie |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wylie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0889-0007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 834 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1855 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The philosophy exception website project
Academic philosophy is notoriously “demographically challenged” on any number of dimensions (Alcoff, 2013), and one of our challenges has been lack of data. Concerns about the lack of relevant demographic data have been raised continuously and insistently by advocates for equity, diversity and inclusiveness in philosophy.1 Philosophical associations have an uneven history of data collection. In Anglophone contexts, the Canadian Philosophical Asso…
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field
Recent advocates of “field philosophy” make the case that philosophy “needs to get outside more often”; alongside disciplinary modes of practice we should cultivate philosophical work that is consequential in real-world, practical terms. This takes a number of different forms, many of them captured by a framework for analyzing engaged philosophy of science proposed by Plaisance and Elliott. I draw on three examples of field-engaged philosophy of …
Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science
A century ago historian of science George Sarton argued that “science is our greatest treasure, but it needs to be humanized or it will do more harm than good” (1924). The systematic cultivation of an “historical spirit,” a philosophical appreciation of the dynamic nature of scientific inquiry, and a recognition that science is irreducibly a “collective enterprise” was, on Sarton’s account, crucial to the humanizing mission he advocated. These el…
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Tackling Complex Social Challenges within Neoliberal Constraints
The contemporary academic environment in Canada has undergone reorganization based on neoliberal principles, and has increased attention focused on the importance of supporting interdisciplinary initiatives to address complex problems affecting global society. The purpose of our study was to examine the experience of people participating in a specific university-funded interdisciplinary research initiative. As there is a strong emphasis within th…
Crossing a Threshold
How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back
Archaeological data are shadowy in a number of senses. They are notoriously incomplete and fragmentary, and the sedimented layers of interpretive scaffolding on which archaeologists rely to constitute these data as evidence carry the risk that they will recognize only those data that conform to expectation. These epistemic anxieties further suggest that, once recovered, there is little prospect for putting "legacy" data to work in new ways. And y…
What knowers know well
Neste artigo, argumento que - ao expor o androcentrismo do sistema referencial de suposições consideradas como óbvias e levantando a questão da confi abilidade de normas entrincheiradas de justifi cação - a arqueologia de gênero é mais bem entendida como uma forma de construtivismo social relutante. Ela expõe inadvertidamente a contingência de compromissos fundacionais, do conteúdo e da prática, que se presumiu serem neutros com respeito aos inte…
Standpoint Theory, in Science
A Plurality of Pluralisms
Innovative modes of collaboration between archaeologists and Indigenous communities are taking shape in a great many contexts, in the process transforming conventional research practice. While critics object that these partnerships cannot but compromise the objectivity of archaeological science, many of the archaeologists involved argue that their research is substantially enriched by them. I counter objections raised by internal critics and crys…
Material evidence
Radiocarbon dating was a revolution, which entirely restructured the practice and understanding of prehistoric archaeology around the world, it provided an independent universal timeframe. The need for a secure known-age record of atmospheric 14C ages was clear, and the obvious source was known-age tree-rings. The tree-ring calibration of the 14C timescale became the second radiocarbon revolution. The second radiocarbon revolution highlighted a t…
Introduction
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The Feminism Question in Science
Women in Philosophy
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Epistemic Justice, Ignorance, and Procedural Objectivity—Editor's Introduction
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Archaeological Facts in Transit
Introduction Archaeological facts have a perplexing character. They are often seen as tangible, less likely to “lie” and more likely to bear impartial witness to actual actions, events, and conditions of life than do, for example, the memories reported by witnesses or participants. At the same time, however, they are notoriously enigmatic and incomplete; they are sometimes described by critical archaeologists as inherently multivocal and malleabl…
Introduction
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Pornography Embodied
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Archaeological Finds
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
The Integrity of Narratives
Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding's Science and Social Inequality
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 di…
Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding's Science and Social Inequality
The constitution of archaeological evidence
I begin with a digression that will situate my discussion of archaeological uses of evidence in the wider context of debate about the objectivity and value neutrality of archaeological understanding. My aim is to show that although archaeology is a thoroughly social and political enterprise, evidential constraints are not reducible to the interests of individual archaeologists or to the macro-and micro-political dynamics of the contexts in which …
The Philosophy of History
Introduction
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The Signs of All Times
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests
In the last few years, conference programs and publications have begun to appear that reflect a growing interest, among North American archaeologists, in research initiatives that focus on women and gender as subjects of investigation. One of the central questions raised by these developments has to do with their 'objectivity' and that of archaeology as a whole. To the extent that they are inspired by or aligned with explicitly political (feminis…
Archaeological Cables and Tacking
An analogy by any other name is just as analogical a commentary on the Gould-Watson dialogue
The Engendering of Archaeology Refiguring Feminist Science Studies
Feminist theories of social power
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 th…
Doing Archaeology as a Feminist
How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back
Archaeological data are shadowy in a number of senses. They are notoriously incomplete and fragmentary, and the sedimented layers of interpretive scaffolding on which archaeologists rely to constitute these data as evidence carry the risk that they will recognize only those data that conform to expectation. These epistemic anxieties further suggest that, once recovered, there is little prospect for putting "legacy" data to work in new ways. And y…
Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of Science
The recent Science Wars have brought into sharp focus, in a public forum, contentious questions about the authority of science and what counts as properly scientific practice that have long structured archaeological debate. As in the larger debate, localized disputes in archaeology often presuppose a conception of science as a unified enterprise defined by common goals, standards, and research programs; specific forms of inquiry are advocated (or…
Invented lands/discovered pasts
Equity Issues for Women in Archeology
university groups, and amateurs all vied for a spot on the archaeological landscape. Turf fights were commonplace, such as the bitter feud between William S. Webb and T. M. N. Lewis. Archaeologists were forced to battle government bureaucracy, regulations, and miles of red tape. The National Research Council and the Smithsonian Institution were often involved; yet out of all this chaos came important research that is still being analyzed and inte…
Crossing a Threshold
Feminist critiques of science
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology
Women in Philosophy
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On “Capturing Facts Alive in the past” (Or Present)
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 th…
On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological Science
Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science
A century ago historian of science George Sarton argued that “science is our greatest treasure, but it needs to be humanized or it will do more harm than good” (1924). The systematic cultivation of an “historical spirit,” a philosophical appreciation of the dynamic nature of scientific inquiry, and a recognition that science is irreducibly a “collective enterprise” was, on Sarton’s account, crucial to the humanizing mission he advocated. These el…
Between Philosophy and Archaeology
The journal of the Philosophy of Science Association,Philosophy of Science, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, and in honor of this has reprinted the Table of Contents from its first issue as well as the lead article, 'On the Character of Philosophic Problems' by Rudolf Carnap (1984). Carnap's object in this article is to determine just whatphilosophicalproblems in science are. He took this to be a question about what distinguishes th…
What knowers know well
Neste artigo, argumento que - ao expor o androcentrismo do sistema referencial de suposições consideradas como óbvias e levantando a questão da confi abilidade de normas entrincheiradas de justifi cação - a arqueologia de gênero é mais bem entendida como uma forma de construtivismo social relutante. Ela expõe inadvertidamente a contingência de compromissos fundacionais, do conteúdo e da prática, que se presumiu serem neutros com respeito aos inte…
A Hierarchy of Purposes
Rethinking the Quincentennial
In organizing a plenary session to mark the Quincentennial at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, our aim was not to provide a summary or review of archaeological research bearing on our understanding of Columbian consequences. Rather, we sought speakers who could raise forward-looking questions about the sociopolitical entanglements and consequences of archaeology considered as, itself, part of the legacy of contact.…
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field
Recent advocates of “field philosophy” make the case that philosophy “needs to get outside more often”; alongside disciplinary modes of practice we should cultivate philosophical work that is consequential in real-world, practical terms. This takes a number of different forms, many of them captured by a framework for analyzing engaged philosophy of science proposed by Plaisance and Elliott. I draw on three examples of field-engaged philosophy of …
Epistemic Justice, Ignorance, and Procedural Objectivity—Editor's Introduction
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On The Nestorian Tablet of Se-gan Foo
ART. XVI.—On an Ancient Inscription in the Neu-chih Language
An indigenous record of the nomade tribes of Tartary, who shook the world with their conquests during the middle ages, would no doubt form an interesting episode in universal history. Although the Mongols made their power to be felt from east to west, comparatively little was known in Europe of their actual condition; but that little is sufficient to stimulate curiosity, and while the names of Genghiz and Tamerlane have gained a world-wide celebr…
Art. II.—On an Ancient Buddhist Inscription at Keu-yung kwan, in North China
Travellers from the city of Peking to the town of Kalgan on the great wall of China, must make the journey by the rugged defile known as the Nankow Pass. Five miles north of the entrance, where the village of Nankow stands, is the smaller village of Keu-yung kwan. Fortifications there run up the steep slopes of the mountains on both sides of the valley; and besides arched gateways at the two ends of the village, the highway passes under a limesto…
History of the Heung-Noo in Their Relations with China
History of the South-Western Barbarians and Chaou-Seen
This book, with the exception of a few pages, is substantially the sameand in great part verbatim-as that given by Sze-ma
Notes on the Western Regions
The Tarim.t The Kwan-lun range.+ This is still represented by the district of Kin in the prefecture of Lanchow in Kansuh province.The district city is in N. lat.35? 55', E. long.1040 8'.?The Kashgar river.1I The Yarkand river.* Literally " Accumulated stones," the name of a mountain.t This represents the modern Yarkand.t This was the country known by the name of Eaou-chang during the T'ang dynasty, and was in later ages inhabited by the Ouigour n…
Notes on the Western Regions. Translated from the "Tseen Han Shoo," Book 96, Part 2
An analogy by any other name is just as analogical a commentary on the Gould-Watson dialogue
The Reaction against Analogy
Putting shakertown back together
Between Philosophy and Archaeology
The journal of the Philosophy of Science Association,Philosophy of Science, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, and in honor of this has reprinted the Table of Contents from its first issue as well as the lead article, 'On the Character of Philosophic Problems' by Rudolf Carnap (1984). Carnap's object in this article is to determine just whatphilosophicalproblems in science are. He took this to be a question about what distinguishes th…
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
‘Simple’ analogy and the role of relevance assumptions
(1988). ‘Simple’ analogy and the role of relevance assumptions: Implications of archaeological practice. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 134-150.
Explaining Confirmation Practice
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 (1980). As such, they provide a representative sample of objections to Glymour's model and of the wide range of new initiat…
The Signs of All Times
Feminist critiques of science
Archaeological Cables and Tacking
Women in Prehistory
A Hierarchy of Purposes
Feminist theories of social power
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 th…
Rethinking the Quincentennial
In organizing a plenary session to mark the Quincentennial at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, our aim was not to provide a summary or review of archaeological research bearing on our understanding of Columbian consequences. Rather, we sought speakers who could raise forward-looking questions about the sociopolitical entanglements and consequences of archaeology considered as, itself, part of the legacy of contact.…
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology
The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests
In the last few years, conference programs and publications have begun to appear that reflect a growing interest, among North American archaeologists, in research initiatives that focus on women and gender as subjects of investigation. One of the central questions raised by these developments has to do with their 'objectivity' and that of archaeology as a whole. To the extent that they are inspired by or aligned with explicitly political (feminis…
Explanation in Archaeology. Guy Gibbon
On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological Science
Sociology (37 works) · History (34 works) · Philosophy (34 works) · Epistemology (28 works) · Archaeology (25 works) · Political science (22 works) · History (21 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works)