Lutz Wingert: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2022 |
| Name | Prof. em. Dr. Lutz Wingert |
| Field | Philosophy, Practical Philosophy in particular |
| Address | Professur für Philosophie ETH Zürich, RZ F 2 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| lutz.wingert@gess.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Professor emeritus |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0092-00L | Artifical vs Human? Die Doktorierenden können sich die Leistung dieses Kurses im Bereich «überfachliche Kompetenzen» anrechnen lassen. | 3 credits | 2G | L. Wingert | |
| Abstract | KI-based machines and artificial agents are playing more and more a crucial role in our social and political life. Do they essentially differ from human intelligence and human actors or are they merely an (advanced) version of us? How should we judge on their role? For answering such questions one has to give an account of essential features of intelligence, reason, and agency. | ||||
| Learning objective | Participants should learn to know some philosophical accounts of intelligence, reason, and agency. This knowledge should enable them to evaluate the pro and con of answers to questions of the following kind: 1. Is human deliberation and argumentation essentially algorithmic? 2. Is AI confined to smart solutions of given problems or is AI also able to revise the framing of problems? 3. Could artificial agents like robots be responsible for their behavior? 4. Do my smartphone and I constitute an extended, hybrid mind? 5. How should we deal with AI-based machines in our social and political life? | ||||
| 851-0093-00L | Ethical Issues in the Economy Doctoral students can receive credit for the achievements of this course in the section "Transferable Skills". | 3 credits | 2G | L. Wingert | |
| Abstract | Ecological crises and growing social inequalities rise the urgent question: Is the global way we are doing economics reasonable? – Which kind of wealth is illegitimate? Is a policy of of de-growth needed for protecting our ecological niche? Will technological devices e.g. AI-driven market designs for public goods be the solution or is a change of attitudes necessary to cope with such problems? | ||||
| Learning objective | Participants should learn to know and being enabled to evaluate answers to the following questions: 1. To which extent are economic success and wealth something deserved, and to which extent are they the outcome of lucky circumstances or favorable conditions? And what follows from the answer for the judgment on social inequalities? 2. How much consumption and growth are enough? 3. Which commons should not be privatized? 4. What should entrepreneurs and consumers be responsible for? 5. Does a sharing economy promote a responsible way of doing business? 6. Are technologies for regulating production and allocation of ressources as well as regulating consumptions of goods apt to cope with problems of social inequality, of protecting our ecological niche, and do they empower producers, investors and consumers to act responsible? 7. What are the good things and what are the bad things about the global capitalist scheme doing business in the 21st century? 8. Do we need a de-globalization of doing economics? | ||||
| 862-0004-15L | Research Colloquium Philosophy for Master Students and PhD (HS 2022)  For MAGPW and PhD students of D-GESS only. | 2 credits | 1K | R. Wagner, M. Hampe, N. Mazouz, L. Wingert | |
| Abstract | Ph.D. students, post docs, members of staff, and senior colleagues from other philosophy departments will report on their work in progress. Furthermore, promissing new philosophical articles and parts of new philosophical books will be studied. | ||||
| Learning objective | Ideas and arguments dealing with systematic problems especially in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of mind will be scrutinized and elaborated. | ||||