Ryan Ravanpak | PhD
Teaching Materials | Ethics of Technology
Below you can find teaching materials I have created for Experiential Ethics at MIT and Ethics of Technology at Phillips Academy, Andover. Experiential Ethics is a course piloted in conjunction with the MIT Office of Experiential Learning.Â
Corresponding Syllabus | Experiential Ethics (Ethics of Technology) | 24.133
Week 1 - Introductions [No Handout Available]
Week 2 - Ethical Lenses and Applied Ethics of Engineering
Week 3 - Integrity and Moral Responsibility within the Empirical Sciences
Week 4 - Science, Technology, Social Injustice, and Inequality
Week 5 - Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Week 6 - Running an Ethics Protocol
Week 7 - Evaluating a Case Study From the SERC
Week 9 / 10 - Final Project Work-Shopping [No Handout Available]
Corresponding Syllabus | Ethics of Technology | Course 532
Week 1 - Introduction and Ethical Lenses
Week 2 - Elements of Morality | Basics of Argumentation
Week 3 - The Right to Privacy: Thomson
Week 4 - The Right to Privacy: Privacy in Context
Week 5 - Discriminatory Design and Algorithmic Fairness
Week 9 - Disability and Echo Chambers