Ethics

This course serves as an introduction to ethical questions that engineers may encounters throughout their career and, beyond, in the contemporary world. First, each class aims to let students get familiar with structuring concepts in ethics such as values, duty, virtue, justice, responsibility and moral feelings. Second, the role of engineers is to be studied with regard to technical, social, political and ecological issues, based on actual case studies. Third, the course aims to raise awareness about ethical dangers in the contemporary world, by analysing ambivalent notions such as justification, helplessness, rationality and meaningfulness.

Courses:

1. Introduction: what is this thing called ethics?
2. Engineers and their responsibility
3. Organisations and the trap of justification
4. Systems and helplessness
5. Rationality and insensibility
6. What makes a job meaningful?
7. Final overview and exam training

Tutorials:

1. Discours Ethics
2. AI Ethics