Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 11
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- Term
- Winter 11
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
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Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
News
Deadline for paper: March, 31st
Preliminary schedule:
- Thursday 26.1. 14.00, room IGSSE:
- 14:00: Government and science
- 14:45: "I" and "Free will"
- 15:30: Richard Feynman
- 16:15: Wikileaks
- 17:00:
- Friday 27.1. 14:00, room IGSSE:
- 14:00: Georg Cantor
- 14:45: A beautiful mind, John Nash
- 15:30: Globalization
- 16:15: Freedom of the internet
- 17:00: Open source
Fraud in Science: cancelled
- Saturday 28.1. 11:00, room 00.12.19 faculty room (or room IGSSE):
- 11:00: Emmy Noether
- 11:45: Animal experiments
- 12:30: DNA: Watson and Crick
- 13:15: Privacy and WWW
- 14:00: Women in Computer Science
- 14:45: Gottesbeweise
Room IGSSE is the seminar room in the foyer of the IGSSE building: address and map
Application
The seminar is fully booked. If nevertheless someone wants to participate he should come to my office.
Email to huckle@in.tum.de
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday 20.10. 14:30 in room 02.07.023
Seminar Schedule
See above.
Topics
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell (Mathematics)
- Werner Heisenberg
- Fritz Haber (Chemistry)
- John von Neumann
- Max Planck
- Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells
- Animal Experiments
- Medizine during the nazi era - Euthanasia,..
- Wernher von Braun
- Nils Bohr (Physics)
- Edward Teller (Physik)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physics)
- Andrej Sacharow (Physics)
- "Deutsche Mathematik"
- "Deutsche Physik"
- Fraud in science
- Error in Science
- Epistemology - Limits of Science (Skeptizismus,Kant, Popper,..)
- Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense
- Kurt Goedel
- Lise Meitner
- Bella Abramova Subbotovskaya: Jewish People's Univ.
- Freedom of the internet
- Open Source - Philosophy
- Surveillance
- Alfred Nobel
- Doping (Sport/brain)
- Watson, Crick and the decypherment of the DNA
- Creationismus and Intelligent Design
- Women in Computer Science
- John Nash - A beautiful Mind
- Alan Turing
- Konrad Lorenz
- Fermat Conjecture and Andrew Wiles
- Curta - Hand calculator for Hitler
- Science and Ethics in literature
- Science and Politics
- Political Science - Legitimization of governments,...
- Mathematics of voting systems
- Paradoxa in Mathematics, Arts, Psychology
- Richard Feynman
- Advertisements/Commercials/Psychology: Secret Seducers
- Science and Religion
- Science and Patents
- Milgram-Experiment
- Stanford-Experiment
- Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing"
- The story of the "IG-Farben" - Trusts and nazis
- Industrial espionage
- "I" and "Free Will" - a myth?
- Arguments for the existence of god?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The history of psychiatry
- Historical criticism in biblical studies
- Georg Cantor
- Linus Pauling
- Food chemistry/psychology
- Konrad Zuse
- Science in the GULAG (Solschenizyn)
- Globalisation
- Kapitalis - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- Roboter ethics
- Death Penalty
- Nuclear power - yes or no
- How to achieve outstanding research
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week inadvance to me (Email orr personally)
- Paper: ca. 15 pages, until ca. march 2012
- Seminar will be held blockwise
- Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the winter term
- Literature and advice per email or personally
- Each student has to participate at ca. 9 talks.
- Possible debriefing in my office