Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 17
- Term
- Winter 17/18
- 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
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
Modul description in TUMOnline
News
The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in December/January
Application
Registration in TUMOnline AND email to huckle@in.tum.de
Don't forget to register in TUMOnline also for examination!!!
Only 20 participants are possible.
Preliminary Meeting
tba
Seminar Schedule
tba
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
- Big Data and Politcs
- 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
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week in advance to me (Email or personally)
- For each session we will possibly announce a student chair
- Paper: ca. 8 pages, until ca. end of February 2018
- Seminar will be held in blocks in December/January
- 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