Alison Wylie was born on 1954 and is a Canadian philosopher of archaeology.
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Alison Wylie 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.
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Alison Wylie grew up in Canada and obtained her undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Sociology from Mount Allison University in 1976.
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Alison Wylie then studied at Binghamton University, where she obtained an MA degree in anthropology, and a PhD in philosophy through the short-lived Program for History and Philosophy of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Alison Wylie has held visiting positions at the Australian National University, Reading University, Stanford University, the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, UC Berkeley, New York University, the University of Denver, and Durham University.
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Alison Wylie is currently a professor in the philosophy department of the University of British Columbia.
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Alison Wylie co-chaired the Society for American Archaeology's committee on ethics in archaeology, which drafted the Principles of Archaeological Ethics in use by the SAA.
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Alison Wylie received a Presidential Recognition Award from the SAA in 1995 for this work.
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Alison Wylie was the senior editor of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy between 2008 and 2013 and was named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the year by the Society for Women in Philosophy in 2013.
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Alison Wylie served as the president of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division between 2011 and 2012 and was the president of the Philosophy of Science Association.
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In November 2019 Alison Wylie was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.