Artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine

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In Artificial Knowing, Alison Adam boldly challenges the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world which prescribes the masculine as the norm and excludes other knowers and knowledge, specifically women. Adam fills a large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. By locating feminist theory in relation to science and technology studies, Adam argues that feminist epistemology, in its treatment of the knowing subject and the na…

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Title Statements

Full title :Artificial knowing : gender and the thinking machine / Alison Adam.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

Description:v, 210 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415129621, 9780415129626, 041512963X, 9780415129633
oclc:on1060546032
LC Classification:HQ1233
Dewey Decimal:306.4/6

Subjects

Artificial intelligence -- Social aspec… Expert systems (Computer science) Feminist theory Femmes -- Effets des innovations sur Intelligence artificielle -- Aspect soc… Knowledge representation (Information t… Représentation des connaissances Systèmes experts (Informatique) Théorie féministe Women -- Effect of technological innova…