Artificial Knowing Gender and the Thinking Machine

• Main Author: Adam, Alison
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1998; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Expert systems (Computer science); Feminist theory; Knowledge representation (Information theory); Metaphysics; Philosophy of Technology; Women; Mainstream Epistemology; Ai Project; Standpoint Theory; Vice Versa; Human Problem Solving; prepositional; Artificial Mind; Weak Ai; Symbolic Ai; Robot Control Systems; Traditional Ai; ALife Simulations; imagery; Young Men; AI System; Chinese Room; knowledge; Traditional Epistemology; mainstream; Postmodern Feminism; Feminist Epistemology; lorraine; AI Practitioner; Postmodern Feminists; traditional; Knowledge Engineers; epistemology; Ai Researcher; Prepositional Knowledge; Strong Ai; Epistemic Discrimination; theory; Intentional Stance; feminist; cyborg
• ISBN: 9780415129626; 041512963X; 0415129621; 9780415129633
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203005057

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribution to AI studies. Drawing from theories by Donna Haraway and Sherry Turkle, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a sustained critique of AI which interestingly re-enforces many of the traditional criticisms of the AI project. Artificial Knowing is an esential read for those interested in gender studies, science and technology studies, and philosophical debates in AI.