TY  - JOUR
A1  - Große-Bölting, Gregor
A1  - Scheppach, Lukas
A1  - Mühling, Andreas
T1  - The Place of Ethics in Computer Science Education
JF  - Hochschuldidaktik Informatik HDI 2021 (Commentarii informaticae didacticae)
N2  - Ethical issues surrounding modern computing technologies play an increasingly important role in the public debate. Yet, ethics still either doesn’t appear at all or only to a very small extent in computer science degree programs. This paper provides an argument for the value of ethics beyond a pure responsibility perspective and describes the positive value of ethical debate for future computer scientists. It also provides a systematic analysis of the module handbooks of 67 German universities and shows that there is indeed a lack of ethics in computer science education. Finally, we present a principled design of a compulsory course for undergraduate students.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Diversity
KW  - Social impact
KW  - Bachelor
KW  - Curriculum analysis
KW  - Course development
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-615982
SN  - 978-3-86956-548-4
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 13
SP  - 173
EP  - 187
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Almeida, Mara
A1  - Ranisch, Robert
T1  - Beyond safety: mapping the ethical debate on heritable genome editing interventions
JF  - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
N2  - Genetic engineering has provided humans the ability to transform organisms by direct manipulation of genomes within a broad range of applications including agriculture (e.g., GM crops), and the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., insulin production). Developments within the last 10 years have produced new tools for genome editing (e.g., CRISPR/Cas9) that can achieve much greater precision than previous forms of genetic engineering. Moreover, these tools could offer the potential for interventions on humans and for both clinical and non-clinical purposes, resulting in a broad scope of applicability. However, their promising abilities and potential uses (including their applicability in humans for either somatic or heritable genome editing interventions) greatly increase their potential societal impacts and, as such, have brought an urgency to ethical and regulatory discussions about the application of such technology in our society. In this article, we explore different arguments (pragmatic, sociopolitical and categorical) that have been made in support of or in opposition to the new technologies of genome editing and their impact on the debate of the permissibility or otherwise of human heritable genome editing interventions in the future. For this purpose, reference is made to discussions on genetic engineering that have taken place in the field of bioethics since the 1980s. Our analysis shows that the dominance of categorical arguments has been reversed in favour of pragmatic arguments such as safety concerns. However, when it comes to involving the public in ethical discourse, we consider it crucial widening the debate beyond such pragmatic considerations. In this article, we explore some of the key categorical as well sociopolitical considerations raised by the potential uses of heritable genome editing interventions, as these considerations underline many of the societal concerns and values crucial for public engagement. We also highlight how pragmatic considerations, despite their increasing importance in the work of recent authoritative sources, are unlikely to be the result of progress on outstanding categorical issues, but rather reflect the limited progress on these aspects and/or pressures in regulating the use of the technology.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Medical humanities
KW  - Science, technology and society
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01147-y
SN  - 2662-9992
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spahn, Hannah
T1  - Rezension zu: Helo, Ari, Thomas Jefferson's ethics and the politics of human progress: the morality of a slaveholder. - New York, NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014. - ISBN 978-1-107-04078-6
JF  - Journal of the Early Republic
KW  - Thomas Jefferson
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Progress
KW  - Racism
KW  - Slavery
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2017.0010
SN  - 0275-1275
SN  - 1553-0620
VL  - 37
IS  - 1
SP  - 170
EP  - 173
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -