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| PY 2214 - Philosophy of Information and digital ethics (2nd year) |
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Associated Term:
2022/23 Academic Session
Learning Objectives:
Over the past decade or so, we have started to conduct our lives increasingly online: we socialise online, we apply for jobs online, we read the news online, and so on. In doing so we apply some of our familiar concepts to our online lives: we worry about privacy, bullying, what counts as a being a good citizen online. In this course we’ll look at the extent to which our familiar norms and ways of interacting with each other transfer to our online lives, and how we should respond when these familiar ideas fail to apply to our online life.
Learning Outcomes
1. Reason better
2. Be better ethicists
3. Have knowledge of some important contemporary debates in philosophy of information digital ethics
4. Have knowledge of how philosophy can be usefully applied in other domains
5. Be able to apply philosophical reasoning to their own online interactions
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with this course is 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 10 hours of Lectures across 10 weeks 10 hours of Seminars across 10 weeks 130 hours of Guided Independent Learning Formative Assessment Seminar Participation - Informal, verbal feedback Summative Assessment Essay - 2000 words - 50% Essay - 2000 words - 50% |
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