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Category: Philosophy
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SETI is Archaeology: Signal Science Across Spacetime
Dylan Foley – Archaeological SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Philosophy of Archaeology Series Words:1823 Time to read:10 minutes We Know Exactly One Thing About SETI In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, we face a lot of uncertainties. Although we can make educated guesses, we don’t know if life commonly emerges on other worlds. We don’t…
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The Persistence of Dualism: Why a Decade of Theoretical Innovation Has Failed to Advance Archaeological Science
Update of 2014 article Dualism: The “Great Divide” in the Philosophy of Archaeology. “They made up their minds to name two forms, of which they must not name one—in this they have gone astray.” Parmenides of Elea Archaeology is a discipline in philosophical crisis, charged with creating a narrative, the story of our species evolution,…
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Beyond Typologies: Why Archaeology Needs a Signal Processing Revolution
First in a three-part series introducing a groundbreaking approach to archaeological data science The Hidden Patterns in Ancient Landscapes Imagine standing in a field in County Roscommon, looking at what appears to be just another Irish pasture crossed by modern fence lines. But beneath your feet and etched into the landscape around you lie the…