Alison Wylie | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 69–70)[1] |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of science, Philosophy of social science, Philosophy of archaeology, Feminist philosophy |
Alison Wylie (born 1954) is a British-Canadian philosopher and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of British Columbia.[2]
Wylie specializes in epistemology, research ethics, and feminism in the social sciences, particularly archaeology and anthropology.
Born in Swindon, England, Wylie moved to Canada with her family and obtained her undergraduate degree from Mount Allison University in 1976. She then studied at Binghamton University, where she obtained an MA degree in anthropology (1979), and a PhD in philosophy (1982). Her doctoral dissertation was titled Positivism and the New Archeology.[1]
Wylie has been on the faculty of the University of Western Ontario (1985–1998), Washington University in St. Louis (1998–2003), Columbia University (2003–2005), and the University of Washington (2005–2017). She has also held visiting positions at the Australian National University, Reading University, Stanford University, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, UC Berkeley, New York University, the University of Denver, and Durham University.[3] She is currently a professor in the philosophy department of the University of British Columbia.[4]
Wylie co-chaired the Society for American Archaeology's (SAA) committee on ethics in archaeology, which drafted current Principles of Archaeological Ethics in use by the SAA.[5] She was the senior editor of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy between 2008 and 2013),[6][7] and the president of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division between 2011 and 2012.[8]
Wylie received a Presidential Recognition Award from the SAA in 1995;[9] was named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the year by the Society for Women in Philosophy in 2013;[10] and was elected to serve as the president of the Philosophy of Science Association from 2019 to 2020.[11]