INF5010 - V?r 2007

Undervisningsplan

Dato	Undervises av	Sted	Tema	Kommentarer / ressurser
23.01.2007	Alma Culen?	Rom 3A?	Introduction to the course, determinisms?	Please read notes for the first lecture and readings for discussion next time?
30.01.2007	Alma Culen?	Rom 3A?	Genetic determinism, environmental determinism, linguistic determinisms, cause-effect, narratology?	Please do follow the link above to get to the articles to discuss next time. The neuroscience article I mentioned that could support environmental determinism is here?
08.02.2007	Alma Culen?	亚博娱乐官网_亚博pt手机客户端登录sparken 1, meeting room 4.378?	Cause-effect thinking, naratollogy, influence of technology on family life?	Please read for our next meeting: Teknofriesoner, starts on page 16 Television: Opiate of the Masses Effects of Technology on Family and Community, by J.A. English-Lueck?
15.02.2007	Alma Culen?	meeting room?	Exploring the interplay between technology and society?	Please check the article I mentioned last time, Narrative Emergence of Identity, and be prepared to discuss articles we did not get a chance to talk about last time.?
22.02.2007	Alma Culen?	meeting room?	Exploring the relationship between technology and society?	Clips from films: Modern Times (with Charlie Chaplin) and Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out of Balance). Discussion on how scenario's help being more aware of certain situations (such as in technofriesoner) and on technology and addictive behaviour?
01.03.2007	Alma Culen?	little sitting area in front of the meeting room?	Beginings og science, science and technology?	Everyone prepares a little contribution on early science or pre-scientific thought systems. Your contribution can cover China, Egypt, Greece, Mexico or wherever we have some recorded knowledge from. You could also talk about BC technologies if you choose to. Please prepare Rene Descartes: legacy of mind body dualism ?
08.03.2007	Alma Culen?	meeting room?	science and technology?	We will talk about history of science a bit, relation of science and technology and, if time allows, start on Khunian theory of scientific revolution. Please remember that you need to find a topic for your essay and I need to know about it latest on March 15. Please read about mind-body dualism, site posted last time.?
15.03.2007	Alma Culen?	one of the rooms on the second floor, where er were that one time meeting room was taken. Chose any one of them or we can meet at the sitting area in front of them. Officially they are called seminar rooms 07, 08 or 09. ?	The Structure of Scientific Revolution?	A Sketch of the Kuhnian Philosophy of Science, by Silvio Chibeni. A brief summary of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn (Chicago, 1962). Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice, by Thomas Kuhn. This fills in some points that are not so clear in Kuhn's book. Profile: Reluctant Revolutionary, by John Horgan, Scientific American, May 1991, pp.40-49. An interview containing much pertinent information. Work by Karl Popper Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries by Christos Papadimitriou. Application of Kuhn, falsifiability, social networks, and even the Volterra equation to database theory. ?
22.03.2007	Alma Culen?	meeting room?	Science and Society?	Has there ever been a paradigm shift? by Arthur Young This is the article about the latest neouroscience research on marmosets we mentioned in class The reinvention of the self. Cuts from the movie Apollo 13.Varela's article?
29.03.2007	Alma Culen?	?	Actor network theory?	An introduction to ANT through some applications of ANT with comparative discussion Traduction / Trahison - Notes on ANT, by John Law How things (actor-net)work: Classification, magic and the ubiquity of standards ?
12.04.2007	Alma Culen?	seminar room, 2nd floor?	ANT?	See ANT posting from last week.Next week is not really free, you need to see Hulk and Godsent (just the first half, before it becomes horror)?
19.04.2007	Alma Culen?	seminar room?	?	Today is free, but if anyone has trouble finding films, let me know and I will come and show them. Deadline for essay is 23. 4. at midnight?
26.04.2007	Alma Culen?	seminar room?	Ethics?	Discussion on the theme of ethics and technology. 3 essay presentations??
03.05.2007	Alma Culen?	?	Biotechnology and Ethics?	Essays?
10.05.2007	Alma Culen?	?	Ethics, exam preparations?	essay presentations. Read all Notes for the meeting as these may help you organize a bit material we have covered. As you see, they have not been modified to include discussions we had this year, but can still be of use.?

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