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‘Simple’ analogy and the role of relevance assumptions: Implications of archaeological practice

Alison Wylie

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2 (2):134 – 150 (1988)

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Speculation Made Material: Experimental Archaeology and Maker’s Knowledge.Adrian Currie - 2022 - Philosophy of Science 89 (2):337-359.details Experimental archaeology is often understood both as testing hypotheses about processes shaping the archaeological record and as generating tacit knowledge. Considering lithic technologies, I examine the relationship between these conceptions. Experimental archaeology is usefully understood via “maker’s knowledge”: archaeological experiments generate embodied know-how enabling archaeological hypotheses to be grasped and challenged, and further, well-positioning archaeologists to generate integrated interpretations. Finally, experimental archaeology involves “material speculation”: the constraints and affordances of archaeologists and their materials shape productive exploration of the capacities of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Confirmation by analogy.Francesco Nappo - 2022 - Synthese 200 (1):1-26.details This paper proposes a framework for representing in Bayesian terms the idea that analogical arguments of various degrees of strength may provide inductive support to yet untested scientific hypotheses. On this account, contextual information plays a crucial role in determining whether, and to what extent, a given similarity or dissimilarity between source and target may confirm an empirical hypothesis over a rival one. In addition to showing confirmation by analogy compatible with the adoption of a Bayesian standpoint, the proposal outlined (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Arqueologia e a crítica feminista da ciência Entrevista com Alison Wylie.Kelly Koide, Mariana Toledo Ferreira & Marisol Marini - 2014 - Scientiae Studia 12 (3):549-590.details Muitos termos possuem um sentido técnico sem que ele seja evidente para todos, por exemplo, a "governança ambiental", termo que remete no contexto atual a uma participação cidadã nesse tipo de questão, por exemplo, da saúde de um ecossistema específico, tal como uma floresta ou um vale agrícola, a partir de preocupações partilhadas e não a partir de uma problemática de controle organizacional. Após ter tornado preciso o que é a expertise e quais são os principais problemas postos pelo recurso (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Archaeological Cables and Tacking: The Implications of Practice for Bernstein's 'Options Beyond Objectivism and Relativism'.Alison Wylie - 1989 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1):1-18.details Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Central place theory and the reciprocity between theory and evidence.Peter Kosso & Cynthia Kosso - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (4):581-598.details Information about the prehistoric past is available only in the material remains. To be meaningful, these remains must be interpreted under the influence of a theory of some general or specific aspect of the past. For this reason, prehistoric archaeology clearly shows the reciprocity between theory and evidence and the tension between having to impose information on the evidence in order to discover information in the evidence. We use a specific case in the archaeology of Minoan Crete, a case that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium.Sarah N. Hijmans - 2022 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (1):1-17.details Around fifteen years before the chemical substance alumina could be decomposed in the laboratory, it was identified as a compound and predicted to contain a new element called ‘aluminium’. Using this episode from early nineteenth-century chemistry as a case study for the use of analogical reasoning in science, this paper examines how chemists relied on chemical classifications for the prediction of aluminium. I argue that chemists supplemented direct evidence of chemical decomposition with analogical inferences in order to evaluate the composition (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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