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Between Philosophy and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alison Wylie
Alison Wylie*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
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The journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, Philosophy of Science, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, and in honor of this has reprinted the Table of Contents from its first issue as well as the lead article, “On the Character of Philosophic Problems” by Rudolf Carnap (1984). Carnap's object in this article is to determine just what philosophical problems in science are. He took this to be a question about what distinguishes the “standpoint” of a philosopher from that of the empirical investigator (1984:6). He begins with the observation that “philosophers have ever declared that their problems lie at a different level from the problems of the empirical sciences . . . the question is, however, where one should seek this level” (1984:5).

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985, pp. 478 - 490
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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