SPECIAL TOPICS SEMINAR

Readings

• "Liar!" (1941, in I, Robot)
  Isaac Asimov · Required
• "Violence, Peace, and Peace Research" (Journal of Peace Research, 1969), pp. 167–179 (12 pages).
  Johan Galtung · Required
• Atlas of AI (Yale University Press, 2021), Chapter 1: "Earth", pp. 23–37 (14 pages).
  Kate Crawford · Required
• Black Feminist Thought (Routledge, 2000), Chapter 11 excerpt: "Black Feminist Epistemology", pp. 251–265
  Patricia Hill Collins · Required
• Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford University Press, 2007), Chapter 1 excerpt, pp. 17–28
  Miranda Fricker · Required
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" (FAccT, 2021), Sections 1, 2, and 6, pp. 610–614, 617–622
  Timnit Gebru; Emily Bender · Required
• Simulacra and Simulation (trans. Sheila Faria Glaser, 1994), "The Precession of Simulacra", pp. 1–10
  Jean Baudrillard · Required
• Atlas of AI (Yale University Press, 2021), Chapter 1: "Earth", pp. 23–37 (14 pages). Authors: Kate Crawford
  See source
• Black Feminist Thought (Routledge, 2000), Chapter 11 excerpt: "Black Feminist Epistemology", pp. 251–265 Authors: Patricia Hill Collins
  See source
• Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford University Press, 2007), Chapter 1 excerpt, pp. 17–28 Authors: Miranda Fricker
  See source