Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 11
- Term
- Winter 11
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
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Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
News
Preliminary Meeting: Thursday 20.10. 14:30 in room 02.07.023
Preliminary schedule:
- 26.1. 14.00 room IGSSE: Schirmer, Brunner, Golovatenko, Asamer
- 27.1. 14:00 room IGSSE: Skoukourian, Gautam, Okita, Hernandez,
- 28.1. 11:00 room IGSSE: Eberl, Belaus, Riedel, Islam, Mbepke
Room IGSSE is the seminar room in the foyer of the IGSSE building
Application
The seminar is fully booked. If nevertheless someone wants to participate he should come to the preliminary meeting.
Email to huckle@in.tum.de
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday 20.10. 14:30 in room 02.07.023
Seminar Schedule
Will be announced in the preliminary meeting
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
- 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
- Kapitalis - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- Roboter ethics
- Death Penalty
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. march 2012
- Seminar will be held blockwise
- 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