Below is the audio recording of Alison Wylie’s John Dewey Lecture, “From the Ground Up: Philosophy and Archaeology,” given at the 2017 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“From the Ground Up: Philosophy and Archaeology” by Alison Wylie
Alison Wylie is Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She earned her BA in philosophy from Mount Allison University and her PhD in philosophy from Binghamton University. Her areas of specialization are philosophy of the social and historical sciences; feminist philosophy of science; history and philosophy of archaeology; ethics issues in the social sciences. Wylie served as president of the APA Pacific Division in 2011–2012. Her recent publications include Material Evidence (2015) and Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016), co-edited and co-authored with archaeologist Bob Chapman; “Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science: George Sarton, Contextualist Philosophies of Science, and the Indigenous/Science Project,” (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2022), “Triangulation and Traceability: Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology” (Data Journeys in the Sciences, 2020), “Crossing a Threshold: Collaborative Archaeology in Global Dialogue” (Archaeologies, 2019), and “Rock, Bone and Ruin: A Trace-centric Appreciation” (Theory and Practice in Biology, 2019).
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
