Publications – Alison Wylie

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Philosophy of Science

Books, Edited Volumes, Journal Special Issues

Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology: co-authored with Robert Chapman, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London, 2016.

Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice, co-edited with Robert Chapman, Routledge, London, 2015. Material Evidence Website

Symposium: Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice, in Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 7.2 (2010). Episteme

Epistemic Diversity and Dissent, Special Issue of Episteme: Journal of Social Epistemology, guest editor, 3.1 (2006). Muse

A More Social Epistemology: Decision Vectors, Epistemic Fairness, and Consensus in Solomon’s Social Empiricism, special issue of Perspectives on Science 16.3 (2008). MIT

Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions co-edited with Harold Kincaid and John Dupre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. OUP

When Difference Makes a Difference: Epistemic Diversity and Dissent: special issue of Episteme: Journal of Social Epistemology 3.1-2 (2006). Episteme

Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology, University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 2002. UCPress

Annual Special Issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences: “Selected Papers from the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable,” co-edited with James Bohman and Paul A. Roth. Roundtable special issues appear as the first issue each year, beginning with March 2008 (38.1). For tables of contents: Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Philosophy of the Field, In the Field: Past President’s Address,” Philosophy of Science (in press). Cambridge Core

“Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science: George Sarton, Contextualist Philosophies of Science, and the Indigenous/Science Project,” in “Engaging with Science, Values and Society,” special issue edited by Ingo Brigandt: Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52.3 (2022): 256-278. OA CJP

“Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology: Triangulation and Traceability,” in Data Journeys in the Sciences, S. Leonelli and N. Tempini, Springer, 2020, pp. 285-301. Springer.

“Rock, Bone and Ruin, Adrian Currie: A Trace-centric Appreciation”: Theory and Practice in Biology 11 (2019): PTPBio online.

“Philosophy from the Ground Up: Philosophy and Archaeology,” Dewey Lecture, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 91 (2017): 118-136. APA Publication

“Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology”: Springer Handbook of Model-based Science, Part I: Architecture, Economics and the Human Sciences, edited by Lorenzo Magnani and Tommaso Bertolotti, 2017, pp. 989-1002. Springer

“How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back: Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways”: special issue of Science, Technology, and Human Values on “Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness and Absence,” edited by Sabina Leonelli, Gail Davies and Brian Rappert, 42.2 (2017): 203-225. STHV

“A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology”: in Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, edited by Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, and Jonathan Y. Tsou, Springer, 2015, pp. 189-210. Springer

“Community-Based Collaborative Archaeology”: in Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, edited by Nancy Cartwright and Eleonora Montuschi, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 68-82. OUP, Preprint

“Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology”: in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining, and Mimi Vasilaki, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 371-394. OUP

“Archaeological Facts in Transit:The ‘Eminent Mounds’ of Central North America”, in How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge, edited by Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.301-322. CUP

“Feminist Perspectives on Science,” co-authored with Elizabeth Potter and Wenda Bauchspies, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010-2015. SEP

“Agnatology in/of Archaeology,” Agnatology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger; Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 183-205. SUP

“Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology,” in 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. Elsevier

“Socially Naturalized Norms of Epistemic Rationality: Aggregation and Deliberation,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 Supplement (2006): 43-48. WileyOnline

“A Philosopher at Large,” in Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson, edited by Thomas M. Lennon, Brill, Boston, 2003, pp. 165-178.

“Rethinking Unity as a Working Hypothesis for Philosophy of Science: How Archaeologists Exploit the Disunity of Science,” Perspectives on Science 7.3 (1999): 293-317. MIT

“Rethinking Objectivity: Nozick’s Neglected Third Option,” editorial, International Studies in Philosophy of Science 14.1(2000): 5-10.

“The Constitution of Archaeological Evidence: Gender Politics and Science,” in The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996, pp. 311-343. SUP

“Discourse, Practice, Context: From HPS to Interdisciplinary Science Studies,” PSA 1994, Volume 2, edited by Micky Forbes, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, 1996, pp. 393-395.

“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. PoSS

“Bootstrapping in Un-Natural Sciences: An Archaeological Case,” PSA 1986, Volume I, edited by A. Fine and P. Machamer, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing Michigan , 1986, pp. 314-322.

“Arguments for Scientific Realism: The Ascending Spiral,” American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1986): 287-297.

“Facts of the Record and Facts of the Past: Mandelbaum on the Anatomy of History ‘Proper’,” International Studies in Philosophy 17 (1985): 71-85.

“The Step-Motherly Nature of Rosenberg’s ‘One World’,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1983): 245-254.

Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, Commentaries

“Archaeology and Philosophy of Science,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pp. 614-617.

“Status Report: Philosophy of Science in the People’s Republic of China,” Philosophy of Science Newsletter 18.1 (1989): 10-12; expanded in a co-authored version with James Robert Brown for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Communique 21 (1989): 4-11. (Reprinted in the Newsletter of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science 35 (1989): 11-13.)

“Review of M. Bunge, Finding Philosophy in Social Science,” University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1(1997-98): 121-124.

“Review of One World and Our Knowledge of It by J.F. Rosenberg,” International Studies in Philosophy 18 (1986): 83-85.

“Review of Naturalism and Social Science by David Thomas,” International Studies in Philosophy 14 (1982): 104-106.

Philosophy of Archaeology

Books, Edited Volumes, Journal Special Issues

Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology: co-authored with Robert Chapman, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London, 2016. Bloomsbury

Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice, co-edited with Robert Chapman, Routledge, London, 2015. Material Evidence Website

Doing Archaeology as a Feminist, Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, guest edited with Margaret W. Conkey, 14.3 (2007). Springer

Thinking From Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology, University of California Press, Berkeley CA, (September 2002). UCPress | Abstract

Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology, co-edited with Valerie Pinsky, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. (Reprinted in paperback by the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque NM 1995.)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Bearing Witness: What Can Archaeology Contribute in an Indian Residential School Context?”: E. Simons, A. Martindale, A. Wylie, in Working with and for Ancestors: Collaboration in the Care and Study of Ancestral Remains, eds. C. Meloche, K. Nichols, L. Spake, Routledge, 2021, pp. 21-31.

“Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology: Triangulation and Traceability,” in Data Journeys in the Sciences, eds. S. Leonelli and N. Tempini, Springer, 2020, pp. 285-301. Springer.

“Collaborations in Indigenous and Community-Based Archaeology: Preserving the Past Together,” S. L. Gonzalez, Y. Ngandali, S. Lagos, H. K.Miller, B. Fitzhugh, S. Haakanson, P. Lape, A. Wylie, Association for Washington Archaeology 19 (2019-2020): 15-33.
Awarded the Association for Archaeology in Washington 2020 award for “scholarly excellence in research.”

“Crossing a Threshold: Collaborative Archaeology in Global Dialogue,” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 15.5 (2019): 570-587.

“Rock, Bone and Ruin, Adrian Currie: A Trace-centric Appreciation”: Theory and Practice in Biology 11 (2019): PTPBio online.

“A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology”: in Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, edited by Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, and Jonathan Y. Tsou, Springer, 2015, pp. 189-210. Springer

“Interdisciplinary Practice: Archaeology and Philosophy”: in Archaeology in the Making: Conversations Through a Discipline, edited by William Rathje, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Witmore, Routledge, 2012, pp. 93-121.

“Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology”: in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining, and Mimi Vasilaki, Oxford University press, 2011, pp. 371-394. OUP

“Archaeological Facts in Transit: The ‘Eminent Mounds’ of Central North America”, in How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge, edited by Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 301-322. CUP

“The Appropriation of Archaeological Finds,” co-authored with George Nicholas, in The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation edited by James O. Young and Conrad G. Brunk, Routledge, 2009, pp. 11-54.

“Agnotology in/of Archaeology,” Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger; Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 183-205. SUP

“Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology,” in Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord; volume 14, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Elsevier Science, 2007, pp. 517-549. Elsevier

“The Integrity of Narratives: Epistemic Constraints on Multivocality,” in Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies, edited by Junko Habu, Clare Fawcett, and John Matsunaga, Springer Publications, 2007, pp. 201-212.

“Moderate Relativism, Political Objectivism,” in The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism, edited by Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson, McGill-Queens University Press, 2006, pp. 25-35.

“A Philosopher at Large,” in Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson, edited by Thomas M. Lennon, Brill, Boston, 2003, pp. 165-178.

“Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of Science” American Antiquity 65.2 (2000): 227-237.

“Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism?: The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis,” in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999, pp. 23-50.

“Alternative Histories: Epistemic Disunity and Political Integrity,” in Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings, edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, 1996, 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. (Special issue: Explanation in the Human Sciences, edited by David K. Henderson.)

“An Expanded Behavioral Archaeology: Transformation and Redefinition Twenty Years On,” Expanding Archaeology: A Behavioral Approach to the Archaeological Record, edited by James M. Skibo, William H. Walker, and Axel E. Nielsen, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1995, pp. 198-209.

“Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Objectivism in Archaeology,” Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Michael Martin and Lee McIntyre, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 1994, pp. 747-765.

“‘Invented Lands/Discovered Pasts’: The Westward Expansion of Myth and History,” Historical Archaeology 27.4 (1993): 1-19. (Keynote Address, Society for Historical Archaeology.)

“Facts and Fictions: Writing Archaeology in a Different Voice,” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 17 (1993): 5-25. (Keynote Address, Canadian Archaeological Association.) Reprinted in Archaeological Theory: Progress or Posture?, edited by Iain M. MacKenzie, Avebury, Aldershot, 1994, pp. 3-18.

“A Proliferation of New Archaeologies: Skepticism, Processualism, and Post-Processualism,” in Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?, edited by Norman Yoffee and Andrew Sherratt, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, pp. 20-26.

“On ‘Heavily Decomposing Red Herrings’: Scientific Method in Archaeology and the Ladening of Evidence with Theory,” in Metaarchaeology, edited by Lester Embree, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer, Boston, 1992, pp. 269-288.

“Rethinking the Quincentennial: Consequences for Past and Present,” American Antiquity 57.4 (1992): 591-594. Reprinted in Peoples of the Past and Present edited by Jean-Luc Chodkiewicz, Harcourt Brace, Toronto, 1995, pp. 138-140.

“Matters of Fact and Matters of Interest” in Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, edited by Steven Shennan, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989, pp. 94-109.

“Archaeological Cables and Tacking: The Implications of Practice for Bernstein’s ‘Options Beyond Objectivism and Relativism’,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19.1 (1989): 1-18. PoSS

“‘Simple’ Analogy and the Role of Relevance Assumptions: Implications of Archaeological Practice,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2.2 (1988): 134-150.

“The Reaction Against Analogy,” in Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 8, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, Academic Press, New York, (1985): 63-111.

“Putting Shakertown Back Together: Critical Theory in Archaeology,” Journal for Anthropological Archaeology 4 (1985): 133-147.

“Between Philosophy and Archaeology,” American Antiquity 50 (1985): 478-490.

“The Demystification of the Profession,” in The Socio-Politics of Archaeology, edited by Joan M. Gero, David M. Lacy, and Michael L. Blakey, University of Massachusetts, Anthropology Research Report Series #25 (1983): 119-129.

“Epistemological Issues Raised by a Structuralist Archaeology,” in Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, edited Ian Hodder, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 39-46.

“An Analogy by Any Other Name is Just as Analogical: A Commentary on the Gould-Watson Dialogue,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1 (1982): 382-401.

Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, Newspaper Articles

“Archaeology and Philosophy of Science,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pp. 614-617.

“Philosophy of Archaeology,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, Routledge, New York, 1998, Volume 1, pp. 354-359.

“On a Hierarchy of Purposes: Typological Theory and Practice,” Current Anthropology 33.4(1992): 486-491.

“On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological Science,” Current Anthropology 33.2(1992): 209-214.

“Review of Time and Traditions by Bruce G. Trigger,” International Studies in Philosophy 11 (1979): 193-195.

“On ‘Capturing Facts Alive in the Past’: Response to Fotiadis and Little,” American Antiquity 59.3 (1994): 556-560.

“Comments on Analogy in Danish Prehistoric Studies,” Norwegian Archaeological Review 26.2 (1993): 82-85.

“The ‘Illusion of Concreteness’ and the Prospects for an Anthropology of Archaeology: Review of Explanation in Archaeology by Guy Gibbon,” American Anthropologist 94.1 (1992): 201-202.

“Review of Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice by Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley,” International Studies in Philosophy 24.1 (1992): 135-136.

“Review of Women in Prehistory by Margaret Ehrenberg, and Women in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones,” Journal of Field Archaeology 18 (1991): 501-507.

“Review of The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians, and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 by Philippa Levine, and Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology by Robert E. Beider,” Philosophy of Science 57 (1990): 546-548.

“Review of Working at Archaeology by L.R. Binford, and Theory and Explanation in Archaeology edited by Renfrew, Rowlands, and Segraves,” International Studies in Philosophy 20.1 (1988): 65-67.

“CA* Commentary on ‘Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art’ by J.D. Lewis-Williams and T.A. Dowson,” Current Anthropology 29 (1988): 231-232.

“CA* Commentary on ‘Toward a Critical Theory’ by Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter, and Paul A. Shackel,” Current Anthropology 28 (1987): 247-298.

“Review of The Method and Theory of V. Gordon Childe by Barbara McNairn,” International Studies in Philosophy 18 (1986): 67-69.

Archaeological Reports

Historic and Prehistoric Site Survey: Fort Walsh National Historic Park (with contributions from J.S. Murray), Microfiche Report Series #230, Parks Canada, National Historic Parks and Sites Directorate, Ottawa Ontario, 1978.

Archaeological Investigations at a Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Mounted Police Post, Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan, 1973-74 Field Seasons (J.V. Sciscenti, A. Campbell, B. Hromadiuk, S. MacLeod, J. S. Murray, and A. Wylie), Manuscript Report #200, Parks Canada, National Historic Parks and Sites Directorate, Ottawa Ontario, 1976.

Research Ethics & Accountability

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Crossing a Threshold: Collaborative Archaeology in Global Dialogue,” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 15.5 (2019): 570-587.

“‘Do Not Do Unto Others…’: Cultural Misrecognition and the Harms of Appropriation in an Open Source World,” co-authored with George Nicholas: in Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology, edited by Geoffrey Scarre and Robin Coningham, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 195-221. CUP

“Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response,” co-authored with George Nicholas, in The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation edited by James O. Young and Conrad G. Brunk, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 11-54. Wiley

“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. Bloomsbury

“On Ethics,” in Handbook on Ethical Issues in Archaeology, edited by Larry Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, and Julie Hollowell-Zimmer, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek CA, 2003, pp. 3-16

Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s, co-edited with Mark J. Lynott, Society for American Archaeology Special Report Series, Washington D.C., 1995. Second revised edition, Ethics in American Archaeology, 2000.

“Science, Conservation, and Stewardship: Evolving Codes of Conduct in Archaeology,” Science and Engineering Ethics 5.3 (1999): 319-336.

“Contextualizing Ethics: Comments on ‘Ethics in Canadian Archaeology’ by Robert Rosenswig,” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 21(1997): 115-120.

“Ethical Dilemmas in Archaeological Practice: Looting, Repatriation, Stewardship, and the (Trans)formation of Disciplinary Identity,” Perspectives on Science 4.2 (1996): 154-194.
Reprinted in Ethics in American Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C., 2000, pp. 138-157.

“Principles of Archaeological Ethics: A Preliminary Report on the Reno Workshop on ‘Ethics in Archaeology’,” Public Archaeology Review 2.1 (1994): 11-13, 21-24.

“Praxis in Anthropology: Ethical Self-Consciousness and Informed Consent,” co-authored with Michael Burgess, Anthropology in Praxis, edited by Philip Spaulding, Occasional Papers in Anthropology and Primatology, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, 1986, pp. 3-24.

“Archaeology in a Social Context: Ethical and Epistemological Considerations,” Directions in Archaeology: A Question of Goals, Proceedings of the 14th Annual CHACMOOL Conference, edited by P.D. Francis and E.C. Poplin, Archaeological Association of Calgary, Calgary, 1983, pp. 369-374.

Encyclopedia Entries, Newsletter Articles, Reviews

“Reflections on the Work of the SAA Committee for Ethics in Archaeology,” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 24.2 (2001): 151-156.

“Foreword,” Working Together: Native Americans and Archaeologists, edited by Kurt E. Dongoske, Mark Aldenderfer, and Karen Doehner, Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C., 2000, pp. v-ix.

“Review of K.D. Vitelli (ed.), Archaeological Ethics,” Public Archaeology Review 4.2(1997): 17-23.

“Archaeology and Philosophy of Science,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pp. 614-617.

“An Update on the ‘Reno Workshop’: Plans for a Panel on Ethical Issues and Archaeology,” Society for American Archaeology Bulletin 12.2 (1994): 2.

“NSF Funds Conference on ‘Ethical Issues in Archaeology’,” Society for American Archaeology Bulletin 11.4(1993): 7.

Feminist Philosophy

Edited Volumes, Special Issues, and Clusters

Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures, 25th Anniversary Special Issue of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Lori Gruen, 25.4 (2010). Wiley

Hypatia 25th Anniversary Retrospective Virtual Issue, editor (2010). Wiley

Symposium: Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice, in Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 7.2 (2010). CUP

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). SpringerLink

Feminist Science Studies, Special Issue of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Lynn Hankinson Nelson, 19.1 (2004).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“The Philosophy Exception Project”: A. Wylie, M. Smithdeal, K. Conrad, J. Heaton, to be included in “Diversity and the Philosophy Exception,” special issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy, published online, open access October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12443

“Feminist Philosophy of Social Science,” Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited by Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone, 2017, pp. 328-340. Routledge

“What Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory and the Formation of Gender Archaeology,” published in Portuguese as “Os que conhecem, conhecem bem: teoria do ponto de vista e arqueologia de gênero”: special issue of Scientiae Studia on “Feminist Approaches to Philosophy and Sociology of Science,” edited by Sylvia Gemignani, Márcia Tait and Hugh Lacy, 15.1 (2017): 13-38. Scientiae Studia

“Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters,” Presidential Address delivered to the Pacific Division APA, in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 86.2 (2012): 47-76. APA

“What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work, and the Academy,” in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi E. Grasswick, Springer, 2011, pp. 157-179. Springer

“Feminist Perspectives on Science”: co-authored with Elizabeth Potter and Wenda Bauchspies, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010-2015. SEP

“Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures,” co-authored with Lori Gruen; introduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue of Hypatia 25.4 (2010): 725-732. Wiley

“What’s Feminist about Gender Archaeology?” Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary Archaeology Association, 2009, pp. 282-289.

“Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding’s Science and Social Inequality,” Hypatia 23.4 (2008): 201-211. Wiley

“Coming to Terms with the Value(s) of Science: Insights from Feminist Science Scholarship,” co-authored with Lynn Hankinson Nelson, in Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions, edited by Harold Kincaid, John Dupre, and Alison Wylie, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp 58-86.

“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.

“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. (Reprinted in The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies, edited by Sandra Harding, Routledge, New York, 2004, pp. 339-351.) Routledge

“Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science,” co-authored with Kent Hogarth, Contemporary British and American Philosophy, edited by Kang Ouyang, published in Chinese by the People’s Publishing House, PR China, 2002.

“Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of Archaeology,” in Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology, and Medicine,edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001, pp. 23-45.

“Feminism in Philosophy of Science: Making Sense of Contingency and Constraint,” in Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, edited by Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 166-182.

“Standpoint Matters, in Archaeology for Example,” Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society, edited by Shirley C. Strum and Linda M. Fedigan, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 243-260.

“The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies,” Osiris, 12 (1997): 80-99. (Special issue: Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions, edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen Longino.) Reprinted in The Science Studies Reader edited by Mario Biagioli, Routledge, New York, 1999, pp. 553-567. UCP

“Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual?: Feminist Critiques of Science,” Women in Human Evolution, edited by Lori D. Hager, Routledge, New York, 1997, pp. 29-55. Routledge

“Doing Philosophy as a Feminist: Longino on the Search for a Feminist Epistemology,” Philosophical Topics 23.2 (1995): 345-358. (Special issue: Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality, edited by Sally Haslanger.)

“Women and Violence: Feminist Practice and Quantitative Method,” co-authored with Lorraine Greaves, in Changing Methods: Feminists Transforming Practice, edited by Sandra Burt and Lorraine Code, Broadview Press, Peterborough Ontario, 1995, pp. 301-325.

“Reasoning About Ourselves; Feminist Methodology in the Social Sciences,” in Women and Reason, edited by Elizabeth Harvey and Kathleen Okruhlik, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1992, pp. 225-244. (Reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science edited by Michael Martin and Lee McIntyre, MIT Press, 1994, pp. 611-624.)

“Feminist Theories of Social Power: Some Implications for a Processual Archaeology,” Norwegian Archaeological Review 25.1 (1992): 51-68.

“The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests: Recent Archaeological Work on Gender,” American Antiquity 57 (1992): 15-34. (Reprinted in Contemporary Archaeology in Theory, edited by Robert Preucel and Ian Hodder, Basil Blackwell, 1996, pp. 431-459.)

“Gender Theory and the Archaeological Record,” Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991, pp. 31-54.

“Feminist Critiques and Archaeological Challenges,” in The Archaeology of Gender, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen Willows, The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary, 1991, pp. 17-23.

“The Value of Advocacy Services for Battered Women,” co-authored with Lorraine Greaves, and Nelson Heapy, Research Committee of the London Battered Women’s Advocacy Clinic, published by BWAC and the Ontario Women’s Directorate, London Ontario, January 1988.

“Philosophical Feminism: A Bibliographic Guide to Critiques of Science,” co-authored with Kathleen Okruhlik, Leslie Thielen-Wilson, and Sandra Morton, Resources for Feminist Research 19.2 (1990): 2-36.

“Feminist Critiques of Science: The Epistemological and Methodological Literature,” with Kathleen Okruhlik, Leslie Thielen-Wilson, and Sandra Morton, Women’s Studies International Forum 12.3(1989): 379-388.

“Contemporary Feminist Philosophy,” Eidos 6.2 (1988): 215-229.

“Philosophical Feminism: Challenges to Science,” co-authored with Kathleen Okruhlik, Resources for Feminist Research 16 (1987): 12-15.

“The Philosophy of Ambivalence: Sandra Harding on ‘The Science Question in Feminism’,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13, (1987): 59-73.

Encyclopedia Entries, Newsletter Articles, Commentaries, Reviews

“Standpoint Theory,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, third edition, edited by Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 1021-1022.

“Standpoint Theory, in Science,” co-authored with Sergio Sismondo: in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, second edition, edited by James D. Wright (area editor, Michael E. Lynch), Elsevier, 2015, pp. 324-330.

“Hypatia: “A Collective Undertaking,” Editors’ pick, The Philosopher’s Magazine (TPM) 3rd Quarter (2013): 107-111.

“Hypatia: A Journal of Her Own,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter, Feminism and Philosophy 9.2 (Fall 2010): 20-24. APA

“Afterword: On Waves,” Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 167-176.

“Feminism and Social Science,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, Routledge, New York,1998, Volume 3, pp. 588-593.

“Gender Archaeology/Feminist Archaeology,” forward to A Gendered Past: A Critical Bibliography of Gender in Archaeology, edited by E.A. Bacus, et. al., University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Report Series, Ann Arbor MI, 1993, pp. vii-xi.

“Review of Women in Prehistory by Margaret Ehrenberg, and Women in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones,” Journal of Field Archaeology 18 (1991): 501-507.

“Methodological Essentialism: Comments on ‘Philosophy, Sex, and Feminism’ by de Sousa and Morgan,” Atlantis 13.2 (1988): 11-14.

Equity Issues

Edited Books and Journal Symposia, Videos and Reports

Women in Philosophy: The Costs of Exclusion, a thematic cluster edited for Hypatia 26.2 (2011).

Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination, co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen and Gisela Fosado, Barnard Center for Research on Women in the BCRW series, New Feminist Solutions, 2007. Report PDF | New Feminist Solutions website | Conference website

Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty, co-edited with members of the Chilly Collective, Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo Ontario, 1995.

Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology, co-edited with Margaret C. Nelson and Sarah M. Nelson, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 5, Washington D.C., 1994.

Chilly Climate for Women in Colleges and Universities, documentary video produced by Western’s Caucus on Women’s Issues and the University of Western Ontario Employment Equity Committee and Office; funded by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities and the Ontario Women’s Directorate, September 1991.

Journal Articles, Books Chapters, Contributions to Published Proceedings

“What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work, and the Academy,” in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi E. Grasswick, Springer, 2011, pp. 157-179.

“Hypatia: A Journal of Her Own,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter, Feminism and Philosophy 9.2 (Fall 2010): 20-24. Hypatia.

“Workplace Issues for Women in Archaeology,” in Women in Archaeology: A Feminist Critique, edited by Hilary duCros and Laurajane Smith, Occasional Papers in Prehistory, No. 23, Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1994, pp. 53-60. Reprinted in Kvinner I Arkeologi I Norge 13-14(1993): 1-39.

“The Complexity of Gender Bias,” in Women in Archaeology: A Feminist Critique, edited by Hilary duCros and Laurajane Smith, Occasional Papers in Prehistory, No. 23, Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Research School of Pacific, Canberra, 1994, pp. 245-258.

“Diagnosing Chilly Climate,” in Remedies for Racism and Sexism in Colleges and Universities, Conference Proceedings, Fanshawe College, London ON, 1992, pp.39-53.

“Reassessing the Profile and Needs of Battered Women,” co-authored with Lorraine Greaves and Nelson Heapy, Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 7.2 (1988): 292-303.