Date	Topics	Slides and Reading Material
1. Tuesday September 16^th	Course objectives, topics, and approach The discipline of computer ethics and its different perspectives: the currently dominating socio-technical perspective Course organization and exam	Slides Reading: Moor, J. (1985). “What is Computer Ethics?”, Metaphilosophy 16(4):266-275
2. Thursday September 19^th	The responsibility of engineers Responsibility, passive and active responsibility	Slides
3.Tuesday September 24^th	Papers presentation (How to select a good topic; how to write a good paper; how to make a good presentation)	Slides
4. Thursday September 26^th	Normative ethics; ethics and morality Values, norms and virtues Relativism and Absolutism, Utilitarianism, Kantian Theory, Virtue Ethics, Care Ethics, Applied Ethics	Slides
5. Tuesday October 1^st	Normative argumentation Valid arguments (deductive and non-deductive arguments) and arguments in Ethical Theories	Slides
Thursday October 3^rd	NO CLASS - LAUREE
6. Tuesday October 8^th	Designing morality Technological mediation Moralizing technology Open questions	Slides Reading: Winner, L. (1980). “Do artifacts have politics?”. Daedalus, 109, 121-136
7. Thursday October 10^th	Ethical questions in the design of technology Ethical issues during the design process Regulatory frameworks Open questions	Slides Reading: Devon, R. and van de Poel, I. (2004). “Design Ethics: The Social Ethics Paradigm”. International Journal of Engineering Education 20 (3), 461-469
8. Tuesday October 15^th	Papers and presentations supervision 1
9. Thursday October 17^th	Ethics in IT-Configured Societies Technology as the instrumentation of human action Three features of IT-Configured Activities IT-Configured Domains of Life	Slides Reading: Eggers, D. (2013). The Circle, McSweeney's
10. Tuesday October 22^nd	Digital intellectual property Different scenarios The complexities of digital properties Breaking rules, no rules, and new rules Open questions	Slides Reading: Stallman, R. (1995). “Why software should be free”. Computer Ethics and Social Values, Johnson, D. and Nissenbaum, H. (eds.), Prentice Hall, 190-199
Thursday October 24^th	NO CLASS
11. Tuesday October 29^th	Information flow, privacy, and surveillance Why care about privacy? Strategies Open questions	Slides Reading: van den Hoven, J., Blaauw, M., Pieters, W. and Warnier, M., "Privacy and Information Technology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
12. Thursday October 31^st	Papers and presentations supervision 2
Tuesday November 5^th	NO CLASS
13. Thursday November 7^th	Invited lecture by Teresa Scantamburlo (Università di Venezia) Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI	Slides Reading: Scantamburlo, T., Charlesworth, A., Cristianini, N. (2018). “Machine decisions and human consequences”.
14. Tuesday November 12^th	Invited lecture by Giuseppe Contissa (Università di Bologna) The Ethical Knob: ethically-customisable automated vehicles and the law	Slides Optional reading: Contissa, G., Lagioia, F., Sartor, G., (2016). “The Ethical Knob: ethically-customisable automated vehicles and the law”.
15.Thursday November 14^th	Papers and presentations supervision 3
16.Tuesday November 19^th	Digital order Freedom of expression and censorship Law and order on the Internet Sociotechnical security Open questions	Slides
17. Thursday November 21^st	Papers and presentations supervision 4
18. Tuesday November 26^th	Students presentations 1
19. Thursday November 28^th	Students presentations 2
20. Tuesday December 3^rd	Students presentations 3
21. Thursday December 5^th	Students presentations 4
22. Tuesday December 10^th	Students presentations 5
23. Thursday December 12^th	Students presentations 6
24. Tuesday December 17^th	Papers supervision 5