ClassInfo - Spring 2020 Philosophy Classes

Spring 2020 | PHIL 3602 Section 001: Science, Technology, and Society -- Technology and Warfare (67588)

Instructor(s): Tucker Marks
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020

Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 230
Enrollment Status:: Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Philosophical issues that arise out of interaction between science, technology, society (e.g., religion and science, genetics and society, science and the environment).
Class Notes:: The aim of this course is to investigate how new technologies affect the nature of warfare, and various moral and political problems that result from these changes. We will begin with a brief introduction to military technology as it has developed over the 20th and 21st centuries -- in particular, aircraft, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, uninhabited aerial vehicles (drones), and artificial intelligence (AI) -- to give students context as we proceed. Then, the first part of the course will be a survey of just war theory to give students an understanding of how changes in military technology might lead to moral and political problems, with aircraft, chemical weapons, and nuclear weapons being the primary examples. In the second half of the course, we will look at how emerging technology in the 21st century is raising new problems, with a close look at the military ethics literature surrounding military applications of drones and artificial intelligence.
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