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Professor
Ph.D., 1982, State University of New York
aw26@u.washington.edu
Savery M396
(206) 543-5873
Alison Wylie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from SUNY - Binghamton (Program in History and Philosophy of the Social and Behavioral Sciences) and holds an M.A. in Anthropology. She specializes in Philosophy of Science, Social Science, and History; and in Feminist Philosophy of Science. Alison has a long-standing interest in philosophical issues raised by archaeological practice, and by feminist analyses of science. These include questions about the status of evidence and ideal of objectivity, as well as ethical and political dimensions of research practice.
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- Value-Free Science? Ideals and illusions, co-edited with Harold Kincaid and John Dupre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007.
- Doing Archaeology as a Feminist, co-edited with Margaret W. Conkey, Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 14.3 (2007).
- Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology, University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 2002.
- "Agnotology in/of Archaeology," Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger; Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 183-2005
- Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding's Science and Social Inequality," Hypatia 23.4 (2008): 201-211.
- “The Feminism Question in Science: What Does it Mean to ‘Do Social Science as a Feminist’?”, Handbook of Feminist Research, edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Sage, 2007, pp. 567-578.
- "Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology," in The Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord; volume 15, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Elsevier Science, 2007, pp. 517-549
- "The Promise and Perils of an Ethic of Stewardship," Embedding Ethics, edited by Lynn Meskell and Peter Pells, Berg Press, London, 2005, pp. 47-68.
- “Why Standpoint Matters,” in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, edited by Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 26-48.
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