The Ethics Of Farting
A session about something everyone does which can be extremely fruitful. The premise
disguises weighty discussions of responsibility that lead to the philosophical drawing of
distinctions and counterexamples.
A session about something everyone does which can be extremely fruitful. The premise
disguises weighty discussions of responsibility that lead to the philosophical drawing of
distinctions and counterexamples.
This session is about taxonomically defining something by the kind of thing it is (genus) and what makes it different from other things of that kind. It’s also a chance to reflect on what it means to be human.
This session gets students to consider why people create imaginary utopias and what their idea of utopia might be.
This is a structured session which uses a thought experiment about flying to see disability in a different way.
This session asks, who should profit when something natural is discovered to have valuable properties? In the stimulus story, Eva, a Brazilian, is introduced by her uncle to a traditional antibiotic medicine made from rainforest tree sap. Who should benefit from the discovery? Who owns nature’s ideas?
Espionage is an interesting and exciting entrance point to a discussion of responsibility and whether ‘the end justifies the means’.