Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module will introduce the students to advanced ideas and problems related to ethical aspects of persuasive systems. This also includes problems related to the choices the users of systems are facing when interacting with the system. During the course of the module, the students will engage in lectures and discussions on argumentation, formal logic and ethics based on earlier studies in “Logic and Time” and in lectures on ethical aspects of persuasive systems.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

In the module the students will acquire knowledge of 

• theories of argumentation and formal logic as a continuation of the lectures presented in “Logic and Time”
• aspects of ethics in the context of persuasive systems as a continuation of the lectures presented in Logic and Time
• theories of ethical argumentation

Skills

In the module the students will acquire skills in:

• detecting and a analysing ethical aspects of persuasive systems
• observing and analysing problems using ethical argumentation in the context of persuasive systems

Competences

In the module the students will acquire competences:

• taking an analytical, reflective and critical approach to the use of ethical argumentation and analysis in the context of persuasive systems
• engaging in an interdisciplinary collaboration on basic problems related to logic and time in a specific context
• identifying own learning needs and structuring own learning in relation to the use of notions of ethical argumentation

Exam

Exams