See Schedule for a full list of all readings.
The following are some websites that might be useful in general:
These electronic texts are presented close to the order they are assigned, but there may be some listings out of order:
Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Plutarch on Archimedes
NSPE Code of Ethics for Professional Engineers
Aristotle on Hippodamus
Bacon, Great Instauration
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Book III
Read only the following selections:
Chapter I: Last five paragraphs (beginning with "The next Day I sailed...")
Chapter II, III: All
Chapter IV: Last three paragraphs (beginning with "The Sum of his Discourse...")
Chapter V, VI, and X: All
Yuval Levin, The Moral Challenge of Modern Science
Leon Kass, Reproduction and Responsibility
Michael J. Sandel, The Case Against Perfection and Hawthorne, The Birthmark
The EPA's Roadmap for Mercury and The Mercury Rule Memo
Hawthorne, The Birthmark and Saletan, Tinkering with Humans
See also, time permitting, Savulescu, Humbug Costs Lives
Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
An excerpt from Life on the Screen
Readings on economic growth and ecology
Do all three readings (again, only parts I, IV, and V of the Grossman). Read the Grossman only to understand his main point.
Disclaimer: we will not study Grossman's graphs and statistics!
An Inconvenient Truth
Joseph Ryan et al., Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines in the West
Eric Cornell, What was God thinking? Science can't tell
Leon Kass,
Science, Religion, and the Human Future
Leon Kass and Steven Pinker, Exchange on Science, Religion, and the Human Future
[Other: Daniel Sarewitz,
Lies We Must Live With
Grossman Krueger.pdf
Arrow article.txt
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