BEC Basic Module - Reflection and Responsibility (Projekt) Immersion II Knowledge Immersion II Knowledge

Attempts to diagnose the present generally appeal to conditions of crisis, precarity and complexity - rapid and coordinated action to meet the challenges of the climate catastrophe, automation, the housing crisis, or transformation of the transportation or healthcare sectors appears critical. These local to planetary scale challenges are not merely problems of technical feasibility but rather raise fundamental normative questions:

How can we implement strategies that ensure emerging technologies do not reproduce oppressive power relations? What contribution can my discipline make to an equitable mobility transformation? What are our values and visions for responsible futures and how should they be developed?

 The BEC Basic Module – Reflection and Responsibility of the Berlin Ethics Certificate (BEC) lays the foundations for addressing ethical issues both within and beyond one’s own discipline and provides an introduction to current topics and case studies that can be explored in greater depth in further modules of the BEC. Relevant basic concepts and methods at the intersections of (applied) ethics, science and technology reflection, and inter/transdisciplinarity are taught. In a multidisciplinary exchange, students reflect on different knowledge cultures - including those of their own field of study.

Students are invited to contribute their own topics and interests. The Basic Module is a compulsory course for all participants of the Berlin Ethics Certificate. Further information will be announced on ISIS.

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