Alison Wylie
Alison Wylie | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) Swindon, England |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Positivism and the New Archeology (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rom Harré |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | |
Alison Wylie FRSC FAHA (born 1954) is a Canadian philosopher of archaeology. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences.
Wylie specializes in philosophy of science, research ethics, and feminism in the social sciences, particularly archaeology and anthropology.