Anthropocentrism, Logocentrism, and Neural Networks
Victoria Davion Prefigures Some Important Lessons from Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15021876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronnie Hawkins (0000-0003-3394-5759, corresponding author), Ronnie Hawkins Ronnie Hawkins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ethicsenviro.23.2.04 |
| OpenAlex | W2901582768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
In her 2002 essay, “Anthropocentrism, Artificial Intelligence, and Moral Network Theory: An Ecofeminist Perspective,” Victoria Davion points out, utilizing Val Plumwood's ecofeminist analysis, the faulty anthropocentric, logocentric assumptions made both within the artificial intelligence (AI) community, generating serious problems in the effort to build “intelligent” machines, and in moral philosophy, its “rule-based picture of moral reasoning” (169) coming under fire from the emerging field of neural net research. Davion demonstrates prescience regarding the direction in which both disciplines eventually move, as they learn important “lessons from nature”: That intelligence and moral reasoning are widely distributed throughout the Biosphere and are not based upon what has been taken as paradigmatic—the reductive, linear logic, abstracted from all context, characteristic of only one possible way of approaching the world. I present updates regarding artificial intelligence, neuropsychology, and the philosophical analysis of anthropocentrism, affirming that directing open, respectful attention toward the Other in the real, living world will eventually provide us with the ontological foundation for a nonanthropocentric ethics capable of sustaining truly intelligent and moral ways of living
Anthropocentrism · Biology · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Artificial Intelligence
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