Computation and cognition: toward a foundation for cognitive science
Computation and cognition: toward a foundation for cognitive science
Unified theories of cognition
Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent machines
Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent machines
Intelligence without representation
Artificial Intelligence
What computers still can't do: a critique of artificial reason
What computers still can't do: a critique of artificial reason
Artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine
Artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine
Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems; Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems; Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Human Problem Solving
Epistemological Approach to the Process of Practice
Minds and Machines
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This paper argues that AI follows classical versions of epistemology in assuming that the identity of the knowing subject is not important. In other words this serves to `delete the subject'. This disguises an implicit hierarchy of knowers involved in the representation of knowledge in AI which privileges the perspective of those who design and build the systems over alternative perspectives. The privileged position reflects Western, professional masculinity. Alternative perspectives, denied a voice, belong to less powerful groups including women. Feminist epistemology can be used to approach this from new directions, in particular, to show how women's knowledge may be left out of consideration by AI's focus on masculine subjects. The paper uncovers the tacitly assumed Western professional male subjects in two flagship AI systems, Cyc and Soar.