Deleting the subject: a feminist reading of epistemology in artificial intelligence

Minds and Machines

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-253

  Adam, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EPISTEMOLOGY; SYMBOLIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0034186889     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008306015799     Document Type: Article

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