Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 14
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- Term
- Winter 14
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- 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!
Modul description in TUMOnline
News
Deadline for paper: March 31st 2015
Application
Email to huckle@in.tum.de (and TUMOnline)
Only 20 participants are possible.
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday, 16.10.2014 14:30 - 15:00 in room 02.07.023
Seminar Schedule
- Mo 15.12. IGSSE Seminarraum
- 14:00 Chaudhry, Star Wars
- 14:45 Kumaraswamy, Fraud in Science
- 15:30 --
- Wed 21.1. IGSSE Seminarraum
- 14:00 Javed, Language and Brain
- 14:45 Hasan, Globalization
- 15:30 Eder, A beautiful Mind, John Nash
- 16:15 Zahra, Lise Meitner
- 17:00 MD.M.Rahman, War and politics
- Fr 23.1. MI 02.08.011
- 14:00 Md Habibur Rahman, Patents in Science
- 14:45 Karn, Alan Turing
- 15:30 Bojic, Tesla
- 16:15 Bojchevski, Robot Ethics
- 17:00 Chung, Stanford Experiment
- Sa 24.1. MI 02.09.014
- 11:00 Müller, Surveillance
- 11:45 Singh, Newton
- 12:30 Lucaci, Proofs for God
- 13:15 Hossain, Wikileaks
- 14:00 Güven,Wearable Computing
- 14:45 Nasir, Open Source
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
- 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
- - Privacy
- Alfred Nobel
- Doping (Sport)
- Doping (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
- - Language and brain
- 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
- - Capitalism - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- - Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- - Robot ethics
- Death Penalty
- - War and politics
- Nuclear power - yes or no
- How to achieve outstanding research
- - Tesla
- - Newton
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week in advance to me (Email orr personally)
- Paper: ca. 15 pages, until ca. March 2015
- Seminar will be held in blocks
- 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
