Critiques of knowing : situated textualities in science, computing, and the arts /

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Author / Creator:	Hunter, Lynette.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 246 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. Science -- Philosophy. Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Knowledge, Theory of. Science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142531

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ISBN:	9781134738540 1134738544 0415192560 9780415192569 0415192579 9780415192576
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-238) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Critiques of Knowing explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Hunter weaves together vast areas of thought: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology.
Other form:	Print version: Hunter, Lynette. Critiques of knowing. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415192560

Table of Contents:

The ethos of the nation state: ideology, discourse and standpoint
Rhetoric and artificial intelligence: computing applications in the sciences and humanities
AI and representation: a study of a rhetorical context for intellectual legitimacy
The socialising of context: methodologies for hypertext
Feminist critiques of science: from standpoint to rhetorical stance
A feminist critique of the rhetorical stance of contemporary aesthetics: alternative standpoints.

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