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.
Contact and lecturer
M.A. Nele Fischer
Structure
The Basic Module consists of 5 thematic workshops and 5 Reading Club respectively Ethics Lab sessions. The Reading Club serves to discuss texts that are read in advance. The Ethics Lab supports the identification and discussion of self-selected ethical questions.
Berlin Ethics Certificate
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Dates and Times
Info-event (optional, online) | 18.10.2023 16:00 – 17:00 (via Zoom, link follows)
Introductory Workshop | Responsibility | 25.10.2023 09:30-14:00 (st), (Zoom)
Immersion I Ethics | 15.11.2023 09:30-13:30 st, (Zoom)
Immersion II Knowledge | 06.12.2023 09:30-13:30 st, (Zoom)
Immersion III Inter- and Transdisziplinarity | 10.01.2024 09:30-13:30 st, (Zoom)
Final Workshop | 14.02.2024 09:30-13:30 st, (Zoom)
Reading Club I Dates
8.11.2023 11:30 – 13:30 st, (zoom)
29.11.2023 11:30 – 13:30 st, (zoom)
03.01.2023 11:30 – 13:30 st, (zoom)
24.01.2024 11:30 – 13:30 st, (ethics lab) (zoom)
31.01.2024 11:30 – 13:30 st, (ethics lab) (zoom)
Please register on ISIS!
https://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/search.php?areaids=core_course-course&q=BEC+Basic+Module
