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Showing posts with label Epistemology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epistemology. Show all posts
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Why I dislike TAG, and why I dislike social media

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I saw a tweet a week or two ago about the upcoming TAG ("Theoretical Archaeology Group") conference. I made an offhand negative ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Social media attack to blog post to journal article

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figure from my paper My paper, "Social Science and Archaeological Enquiry", was just released, online, by the journal Antiquit...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Carl Sagan's Toolkit for Skeptical Thinking (or call it Smith's epistemology)

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I just read a nice blog post by A.P. Van Arsdale, "Size, Science, and Scientific Truth  on bias in scientific thinking. I differ from...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Why is a scientific archaeology so hard to achieve?

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This is the third of three posts on my view of a “scientific archaeology.” The first two were, “ Science, social science, and archaeology: ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Pascal Boyer's views of science, social science, and the humanities

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This is an addition or appendix to my prior post. Looking at that post again, it is pretty weak in its discussion of the humanities. As I w...
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Michael E. Smith
I am an archaeologist who has excavated Aztec provincial houses in Mexico to reconstruct the political economy of ancient life. I now work primarily on comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to ancient cities. Does research on early cities have anything to teach us about fundamental urban processes such as resilience, adaptation, and change? I'd like to know. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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