[500] in peace2
IAP course on technology and ethics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason West)
Mon Dec 18 16:02:00 2000
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From: Jason West <jwest@MIT.EDU>
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Friends,
I'll be teaching a non-credit course for IAP entitled "Ethics for
Technology in an Ecological Millennium" which is (unofficially) sponsored
by MIT Student Pugwash.
The course will be based on class discussions, and will involve outside
readings including Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael". We'll try to explore,
question, and strengthen our personal ethical foundations for deciding
whether technologies are "good". We'll be focusing on the future and on
the relationship between humans and nature. We will also have a guest
lecture by environmental writer Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature.
I'll try to make the course fun and only ask that you come with a
willingness to participate and to question your own views.
To sign up, go to web.mit.edu/iap then Activities by Category / Religion
and Ethics
Feel free to contact me with questions.
Cheers,
Jason
