ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
ETICA DELLA TECNOLOGIA E DELL'AMBIENTE
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| 2024/2025 | 6 |
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| Damiano Bondi | Friday from 13.00 to 14.00 (starting from April), online with prior communication via email |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the skills to evaluate the main issues of environmental ethics, and the main ethical problems arising from the use of new digital technologies in work, education, politics and individuale social life. We will provide the basic theoretical notions to focus the relationship between natural and artificial and to critically address the open questions of these two new directions of moral philosophy.
Program
- what environmental ethics means, starting from its history
- philosophical framing of the relationship between "natural" and "artificial"
- brief history of cybernetics and artificial intelligence
- why and in what sense environmental ethics and the ethics of new technologies are "new" ethics
- what are the main problems of environmental ethics and the main current orientations
- which are the main ethical problems of the use of AI systems in work, education, politics and social life
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize new and complex ideas;
- communicate with peers, the wider academic community, and society in the fields of their expertise
- conceive, design, implement, and adapt a research process
- systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the associated research method
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
- Frontal lesson
- seminars with invited speakers
- cooperative learning
- Innovative teaching methods
- Cooperative learning
- seminars with invited speakers
- Course books
- Francesco Lara, Jan Deckers (eds.), Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Springer 2023
- Gardiner, Stephen M., and Allen Thompson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, Oxford Handbooks (2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 12 Nov. 2015)
- Assessment
- Written paper (not mandatory)
- Oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
- Francesco Lara, Jan Deckers (eds.), Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Springer 2023
- Gardiner, Stephen M., and Allen Thompson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, Oxford Handbooks (2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 12 Nov. 2015)
- Additional papers to be agreed with the professor (via mail)
- Assessment
- Written paper (not mandatory)- Oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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