Scientists and Ethics - Summer 12

Term

Summer 12

Lecturer

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle

Time and Place

tba

Audience

Informatik (Bachelor, Master)

Tutorials

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Exam

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Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits

2 SWS / 4 Credits

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Contents

Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

Modul

News

Preliminary meeting for choosing the dates of the talks: April, 29th.

As introduction there will be a talk on May 2nd, 1pm, of the holocaust surviver Bernard Marks, recounting the time he spent in the Ghetto and various Camps. Lateron, Bernard Marks emigrated to USA, and worked for oil and aerospace companies. See the storry in the SZ: Auschwitz ist nicht nur ein Name

Application

Email to huckle@in.tum.de

Preliminary Meeting

Beginning of summer term

Seminar Schedule

tba

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
• Privacy
• 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
• - Capitalism - "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. September 2012
• Seminar will be held blockwise
• 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