All readings are in the
Hester and Ford text unless otherwise noted.
ECS 188 - Ethics in an Age of Technology - Spring 2006 - Earl Barr and Phil Rogaway |
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Class | How Spent the Class? | Reading/HW Due Today | Readings Distributed or Assigned Today, and Other Notes | |
class #1 2006/03/30 | ♦Earl/Phil introduce their view of the course ♦Part 1 of Krzysztof Kieslowski's film The Decalogue |
none | ♦James Moor, Reason, Relativity, and Responsibility in
Computer Ethics ♦Optional: Computer Ethics from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Moor's seminal What is Computer Ethics? |
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class #2 2006/04/04 | ♦Discussed The Decalogue. ♦Begin discussion of Barbour (technological optimism, pessimism, and contextualism). |
♦Chapter 1 – {Mumford} ♦Moor reading ♦Written Assignment 1 |
♦Chapter 2 from Deborah Johnson's book ♦LeGuin, Those who walk away from Omelas ♦Pojman, A critique of ethical relativism |
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class #3 2006/04/06 | ♦Quiz 1 ♦Finish discussion of Barbour ♦Begin discussion of Johnson (the dialectic and philosophical ethics). |
♦Johnson reading ♦LeGuin reading |
none | |
class #4 2006/04/11 | ♦Finish discussion of Johnson |
♦Pojman reading ♦Project milestone 1 |
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Sect 1 wiki (10:40 - 12:00) ♦ Sect 2 wiki (4:40 - 6:00) (book-based projects) ♦Feldman, Kantian Ethics ♦O'Neil, Kant's Formula of the End in Itself and World Hunger |
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class #5 2006/04/13 | ♦Discuss ethical relativism readings ♦Quiz 2 |
♦Feldman reading (Kant #1) ♦O'Neil reading (Kant #2) |
none | |
class #6 2006/04/18 | ♦Discuss Feldman and O'Neill readings (deontology) | ♦Written Assignment 2 | ♦James Rachels, The Ethics of Virtue, Chapt 13 from "The Elements of Moral Philosophy", 4th ed. | |
class #7 2006/04/20 | ♦Quiz 3
♦Discuss Rachels reading (virtue ethics) |
♦Rachels reading | none | |
class #8 2006/04/25 | ♦Discuss ethical analysis Howto ♦Use it to analyze a scenario (handed out in class) ♦Discuss first reading of Chapt 7 |
♦ Ethical Analysis Howto ♦ Chapter 7 |
♦Optional: Stacey Edgar, Computers and Privacy | |
class #9 2006/04/27 | ♦Quiz 4 ♦Discussed privacy, as per the readings for today |
♦Privacy as Contextual Integrity by Helen Nissenbaum
♦Recent news story #1
(lawsuit against AT&T) ♦Recent news story #2 (some context in case you pay little attention to US news) |
none | |
class #10 2006/05/02 | ♦Discussed patents and copyrights, as per the two readings
for today |
♦The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain by James Boyle ♦ Patent Prescription by Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner |
♦Written Assignment 3 ♦Project Milestone 2 |
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class #11 2006/05/04 | ♦Quiz 5 ♦Discussed the two DRM readings |
♦The
Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution by Biddle, et
al. ♦Remade, thankfully, in a reasonable font ♦Microsoft Research DRM talk by Doctorow |
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class #12 06/05/09 | ♦Quiz 6 ♦Discussed the day's readings |
♦ A recent blog entry by Bruce Schneier ♦ Ross Anderson's TC FAQ ♦ An introduction to Richard Stallman's "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays" by Lawrence Lessig ♦ The Right to Read and The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman ♦Written Assignment 3 |
♦David Kairys, Freedom of Speech, handed out. |
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Class #13 2006/05/11 | ♦Quiz 7 ♦Discussed the Kairys reading ♦Section 2: Phil discussed his experience with UCD censoring a web of his |
♦David Kairys, Freedom of Speech | ♦Ward Chruchill's
Some People Push Back (original version) and the
resulting controversy ♦March 2006 indictment of Rod Coronaod for remarks at a 2003 speech |
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Class #14 2006/05/16 | ♦We watched the film Testament (1983) |
♦Project Milestone 2 ♦Just War Theory by Alex Moseley ♦War and Massacre by Thomas Nagel |
♦In the US, defense directly or indirectly funds many IT jobs.
In these readings we ask whether war can be moral. ♦War and Massacre is a difficult reading, so budget accordingly. ♦The Highway of Death ♦A Brief History of the Laws of War ♦We will hand out The Case of Collective vIolence. |
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Class #15 2006/05/18 | ♦Quiz 8 ♦We discussed the film Testament ♦We discussed the Moseley and Nagel readings |
♦Computers, ethics, and collective violence by Summers and Markusen ♦Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy. ♦Draft slides due for day 1 presentations, by email, 11:59 pm. If you're working with a partner, please include both your email address and your partner's on the email so we can easily reply to both of you. One of us, Earl, is likely to print your drafts, so please restrict yourself to black and white with no complex backgrounds. |
♦If you didn't get
Computers, ethics, and collective violence in class and have problems with the DRM nonsense on the softcopy,
extra copies are outside Phil's door.
♦50 facts about nuclear weapons. ♦Hans Bethe's letter to Clinton ♦It's seven minutes to midnight ♦A selection from Disciplined Minds, A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes their Lives, by Jeff Schmidt. Available outside Phil's office. Only the first two chapters initially assigned. |
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Class #16 2006/05/23 | ♦We discussed giving good talks ♦Small-group activity: analyzing ethical scenarios with respect to the ACM code |
♦ACM Code
of Ethics and Professional Conduct ♦Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds, Chapters 1 and 2. ♦Draft slides due for day 0 and day 2 presentations, 11:59 pm. (Day 0 should have been with the prior batch, but I forgot to write that!). See notes above. |
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Class #17 2006/05/25 | We discussed the ACM Code, the Collective Violence reading, and the Disciplined Minds reading. | ♦Finish the remaining two chapters from the Jeff Schmidt reading. |
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Class #18 2006/05/30 | ♦Student presentations, day 0. Section 2: Nathan, Bassem & Jacob. |
♦Diet for a Small Planet, Chapt. 1, Frances Lappe.
Available outside Phil's office. ♦Animal Liberation at 30, by Peter Singer. ♦Personal Reflections on the "Animal-Rights" Phenomenon, by Adrian Morrison. ♦Today's Sect 2 Projects ♦Draft slides due for day 3 presentations, 11:59 pm. See notes above. |
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Class #19 2006/06/01 | ♦Student presentations, day 1. ♦Section 1: Arseny & Daniel, Josh & William, David & Eric. ♦Section 2: Paul, Dominic & Edison, Alex. |
♦Today's Sect 1 Projects ♦Today's Sect 2 Projects |
♦Phil is out of town today, Section 2 covered by Earl. | |
Class #20 2006/06/06 | ♦Student presentations, day 2. ♦Section 1: Mark & Chun Chung, Evan & Michelle, James & Avit. ♦Section 2: David, Paul + John, Yong |
♦Today's Sect 1 Projects ♦Today's Sect 2 Projects . |
♦Phil is out of town today, Section 2 covered by Earl. | |
Class #F2 2006/06/06 | ♦Student presentations, day 3. ♦Section 2: Jeremy, Ranjan, William and Diana |
♦Today's Sect 2 Projects |
♦Section 2 only ♦Attendance mandatory |
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Class #F1 2006/06/15 | ♦Student presentations, day 3. ♦Section 1: Eric and Deepak. |
♦Today's Sect 1 Projects . |
♦Section 1 only ♦Attendance mandatory |