Scientists and Ethics - Summer 16

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

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Contents

Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

News

Preliminary meeting: Thursday 28.1.2016 13:00 in room MI 3.13.10

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

t.b.a.

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