Scientists and Ethics - Summer 16
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- Term
- Summer 16
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle; supervisor: Alfredo Parra
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
- IN901002
Contents |
Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
News
Preliminary meeting: Thursday 21.4.2016 12:30 - 13:00 in room MI 2.7.23
The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in June
Application
Registration in TUMOnline and email to huckle@in.tum.de
Please do not forget to register in TUMOnline also for examination!
Only 20 participants are possible.
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday 28.1.2016 13:00 in room MI 3.13.10
Seminar Schedule
- Friday 10.6. room 03.09.012
- 14:00 Yilmaz D.: Alfred Nobel
- 14:45 Monteri: Soziale Markwirtschaft - Capitalism - Communism
- 15:30 Bammey: Gaston Bachelard
- 16:15 Yilmaz S.: Tesla
- Saturday 11.6. room 02.07.023
- 11:00 Subburam: Stanford Experiment
- 11:45 Sarafov: Industrial Espionage
- 12:30 Tamoor: Genetics - omitted
- 13:15 Casas: Milgram Experiment
- Wednesday 15.6. room 00.08.055
- 14:00 Heinze: Globalization
- 14:45 Sachs: Existence of God
- 15:30 Bathia: Doping (Sport)
- 16:15 Shivguru: Open Source
- Saturday 2.7. room 02.07.023
- 11:00 Debsarkar: Alan Turing
- 11:45 Kumar: Privacy
- 12:30 Moustachir: Robot Ethics
- 13:15 Khan: Animal Experiments
- 14:00 Nedkov: Brain Doping
Topics
Already chosen topics that are no more available are marked with -
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell (Mathematics)
- Werner Heisenberg
- Fritz Haber (Chemistry)
- John von Neumann
- Max Planck
- Wernher von Braun
- Nils Bohr (Physics)
- Edward Teller (Physik)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physics)
- Andrej Sacharow (Physics)
- Kurt Goedel
- Lise Meitner
- Bella Abramova Subbotovskaya: Jewish People's Univ.
- - Alfred Nobel
- John Nash - A beautiful Mind
- - Alan Turing
- Konrad Lorenz
- Curta - Hand calculator for Hitler
- Richard Feynman
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Georg Cantor
- Linus Pauling
- Konrad Zuse
- - Tesla
- Newton
- - Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells
- - Animal Experiments
- Medizine during the Nazi era - Euthanasia,..
- - Doping (Sport)
- - Doping (brain)
- Advertisements/Commercials/Psychology: Secret Seducers
- Language and brain
- - Milgram-Experiment
- - Stanford-Experiment
- - Food chemistry/psychology
- The history of psychiatry
- Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense
- Freedom of the internet
- - Open Source - Philosophy
- Surveillance
- - Privacy
- Women in Computer Science
- Wikileaks
- Robot ethics, "death by algorithm"
- digital dementia
- Fraud in science
- Error in Science
- Epistemology - Limits of Science (Skeptizismus,Kant, Popper,..)
- Watson, Crick and the decypherment of the DNA
- Fermat Conjecture and Andrew Wiles
- Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing"
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- How to achieve outstanding research
- Creationism and Intelligent Design
- Science and Ethics in literature
- Science and Politics
- Political Science - Legitimization of governments,...
- Mathematics of voting systems
- Paradoxa in Mathematics, Arts, Psychology
- - Science and Religion
- Science and Patents
- The story of the "IG-Farben" - Trusts and nazis
- - Industrial espionage
- "I" and "Free Will" - a myth?
- - Arguments for the existence of god?
- Historical criticism in biblical studies
- Science in the GULAG (Solschenizyn)
- - Globalisation
- - Capitalism - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Death Penalty
- War and politics
- Nuclear power - yes or no
- - Gaston Bacheland
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week in advance to me (Email orr personally)
- For each session we will announce a student chair
- Paper: ca. 8 pages, until around September 2016
- Seminar will be held in blocks
- Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the summer term
- Literature and advice per email or personally
- Each student has to participate at ca. 9 talks.
- Possible debriefing in my office
