Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 13

Term

Winter 13

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

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Contents

Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

Modul

Modul description in TUMOnline

News

The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in January/February

Application

Email to huckle@in.tum.de (and TUMOnline)

Only 10 participants are possible.

Preliminary Meeting

Thursday 11.07.2012 13:30-14:00 in room 02.07.023

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/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
• Robot 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. April 2014
• 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