Ethics & Digitization

Digitization offers numerous opportunities, but also poses risks - how do we deal with them?

 

Digitization is often presented as a challenge, as if it's happening no matter what. But is digitization really a good thing? What are the risks? How can we shape it in accordance with our ethical values?

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Basic informations

Learning outcomes:

Students will be able to…

  • ... indicate key opportunities and risks associated with digitization from an ethical perspective.

  • ... take a well-founded stance on the consequences of digitization for the working world.

  • ... explain how digital applications influence human decisions and how this can be dealt with.

  • ... discuss the extent to which digitization affects our self-conception as human beings.

  • ... correctly use central terms of ethics (e.g. good life, autonomy) and relate them to examples.

Duration:

2 hours

Language:

German and english

Expert:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Claus Beisbart, Institute of Philosophy
Eligibility requirements:

Accessible for members of Swiss and ENLIGHT universities

Completion:

Participants receive a confirmation of completion upon successful completion of this learning unit.
Credit transfer to study program:

The possibility of crediting the learning unit to one's own study program must be agreed upon bilaterally with each respective study program.
Authorship:

The learning unit was developed in a cooperation between the Institute of Philosophy, the Learning and Development Unit and the Innovative Teaching & Learning Technologies (ILUB) Unit.