711-0199/01 – Ethical Questions of Modern Science (EOMV)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Social SciencesCredits2
Subject guarantorprof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.Subject version guarantorprof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semestersummer
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2007/2008Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesHGF, FEI, USP, FSIntended for study typesFollow-up Master, Bachelor
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
FEB40 prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.
HAU40 prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer
ZEM0106 Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit 2+0
Part-time Credit 6+0

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

A student defines basic conceptions of ethics and describes and compares different ethical theories. He defines the concept science and describe a development of scientistic thinking since myth till contemporary scientific paradigm. A student clears up the relation between ethics and a science and explains ethical norms of scientific work. He evaluates the ethical descents of science on contemporary society and applies the ethical attitudes towards physics, biology and modern technologies.

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Summary

The subject Ethical Questions of Modern Science considers an introduction to the problematic of humanitarian and ethical principles in contemporary science. It acquaints with basic ethical conceptions, theories and critical standpoints. It offers summary of present ethical positions and put an attantion to controversial ethical topics of present world and science. This subject accents specifications of ethical norms for science working as a prodigy of society and definitions of ethical norms in relation to a science and a society. Students recieve a knowledge which also includes basics of ethics of physics, bioethics and ethics of the latest technologies.

Compulsory literature:

MacIntyre, Alasdair: A Short History of Ethics (2nd edition). Routledge, 2002. Thompson, Mel: Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2005.

Recommended literature:

Thompson, Mel: An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics (Access to Religion and Philosophy). London: Hodder Murray, 2003.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

Verification conversational.

E-learning

Other requirements

Reading of recommended texts and books.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Basic notions of ethics and the problem of ethic understanding 2. Tradition of ethic empiricism 3. Moral canon and independent will 4. Conscience and its interpretation 5. Ethics standards, morality, virtue, utility and sense of ethic behaviour 6. Relativity of ethically position 7. New and contemporary ethic conceptions 8. Analytic ethic 9. Definition of ethics of science 10. Ethos of science 11. Ethic standard of science 12. Ethics and scince in contemporary society 13. The Freedom of scientific research 14. Ethic problems of contemporary physics, biology and IT 15. Great scientists and morality

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Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study

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2021/2022 (B0533A110023) Applied Physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2020/2021 (B0533A110023) Applied Physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2020/2021 (B0541A170008) Computational and Applied Mathematics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2020/2021 (N0714A270003) Mechatronics K Czech Ostrava 2 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2019/2020 (B0533A110023) Applied Physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2019/2020 (B0541A170008) Computational and Applied Mathematics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2019/2020 (N0714A270003) Mechatronics P Czech Ostrava 2 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2019/2020 (N0714A270003) Mechatronics K Czech Ostrava 2 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2018/2019 (B3942) Nanotechnology (3942R001) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2017/2018 (B1316) Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2017/2018 (B1316) Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics (3646R006) Geoinformatics K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2017/2018 (B1701) Physics (1702R001) Applied Physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2016/2017 (B1316) Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
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2016/2017 (B3942) Nanotechnology (3942R001) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2015/2016 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
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2015/2016 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2014/2015 (B1701) Physics (1702R001) Applied physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2014/2015 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (B1701) Physics (1702R001) Applied physics P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2012/2013 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2012/2013 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2012/2013 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2011/2012 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
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2010/2011 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2009/2010 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (B3942) Nanotechnology P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
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2008/2009 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R006) Geoinformatics P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
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Subject block without study plan - FEI - P - cs 2022/2023 Full-time Czech Optional FEI - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science stu. block

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