ETHICS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Course Information
TitleΗΘΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ / ETHICS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CodeΕ 104
FacultyEducation
SchoolPrimary Education
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorIoannis Markopoulos
CommonYes
StatusInactive
Course ID80003087
Class Information
Academic Year2013 – 2014
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
80022882
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
  • General Knowledge
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
It would be of essential usefulness, if the students would have-almost from highschool-sufficient knowledge in philosophy and ethics. Unfortunately, compared with other european countries, this is not the case.
Learning Outcomes
The aim of this course is to generally introduce the students in ethical theory and moral practice. The course's major attention is focused on the study of the different ethical theories, and on the enhancement of the student's sensitiveness concerning socio-ethical issues, and especially the application of ethical theories to face concrete environmental and bioethical issues. After the course's completion, the students will be able: - to understand the two-way relationship between science (and techno-science) and ethics. - to recognize and understand some basic ethical concepts, principles and theories. - to critically and comparatively discuss the ethical theories. - to enhance critical as well as moral thought. - to approach contemporary issues - arising from the rapid development of Technoscience - from a moral point of view. - to recognize and understand the axiological role of ethics of science and technology.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course examines the ethical and moral dimension, as well as the importance of the principles, the norms, the methods, the achievements and the social and environmental implications of science and technology. Moreover, the course is focused on the scientific and moral code of conduct, and on the responsibility of the scientists and the scientific community. -Based on an inquiry of the relationship between technoscience, on one hand, and ethics and a theory of value,on the other, as well as on the most important ethical theories - Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics,Contractarianism/Contractualism, Virtue Ethics, Moral Rights, Four Principles Theory and Feminist Ethics - and their main principles, the attempt will be undertaken to recognize, evaluate and face concrete environmental and bioethical issues, and to re-establish a unifying view of technoscience with ethical theory and moral practice.
Keywords
Ethical theories, Bioethics, Ethics of science, Ethics of technology
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Book
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures✓
Also in dialogue✓
Total
Student Assessment
Description
The assessment is based on a final written examination.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
Last Update
04-05-2014