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Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology (2017)
Book Chapter
Wylie, A. (2017). Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology. In L. Magnani, & T. Bertolotti (Eds.), Springer handbook of model-based science (989-1002). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30526-4_46

I distinguish, by specificity and representational function, several different types of archaeological models: phenomenological, scaffolding, and explanatory models. These take the form of concrete, mathematical, and computational models (following W... Read More about Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology.

Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wylie, A. (2016, November). Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning. Presented at PSA 2016: The 25th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association., Atlanta, GA, USA

Archaeologists put a premium on pressing “legacy data” into service, given the notoriously selective and destructive nature of their practices of data capture. Legacy data consist of material and records that been assembled over decades, sometimes ce... Read More about Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning.

How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways (2016)
Journal Article
Wylie, A. (2017). How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 42(2), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916671200

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 w... Read More about How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways.

Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016)
Book
Chapman, R., & Wylie, A. (2016). Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology. Bloomsbury

How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially... Read More about Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology.

A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology (2015)
Book Chapter
Wylie, A. (2015). A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology. In F. Padovani, A. Richardson, & J. Y. Tsou (Eds.), Objectivity in science : new perspectives from science and technology studies (189-210). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1_10

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 comprom... Read More about A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology.

Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wylie, A. (2012, November). Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters. Presented at Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle

Feminist standpoint theory has a contentious history. It is an explicitly political as well as social epistemologa characterized by the thesis that those who are marginalized or oppressed under conditions of systemic inequity may, in fact, be better... Read More about Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters.

What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy (2011)
Book Chapter
Wylie, A. (2011). What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy. In H. E. Grasswick (Ed.), Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science : power in knowledge (157-179). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6835-5_8

Research on the status and experience of women in academia in the last 30 years has challenged conventional explanations of persistent gender inequality, bringing into sharp focus the cumulative impact of small scale, often unintentional differences... Read More about What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy.