Minor Anthropology and Ethics of Technics

We generally consider technology as a very useful tool to improve our life, to solve problems and to enjoy ourselves. Though, is there any negative downside? Has human being lost something of his/her peculiar nature? Is human being enhanced or diminished? How human being has changed with technological progress? Did we lose any particular value during that evolution?

This course will be set on four parts:

• Anthropological inquiry on Technics
  • New sociability
  • A New Narcissism
  • The impact of Technologies and Communication Tools on human life
• Transhumanism
  • Enhancement, augmentation, transformation of human body by technological devices
• Philosophical inquiry on Technics
  • The Question of Technics: what is the technological paradigm?
  • Technophobia versus Techno-philia
• An ethical approach to Technics
  • The ethical inversion
  • Tools and aims

• Valentina Tirloni, lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences, Université Côte d'Azur

• All the specific bibliography will be delivered on each chapter of the course on Moodle 

• Written essay #1 - Submission deadline (on Moodle): 07/11/2024, before 22h00 - 50% of the final grade
• Written essay #2 - Submission deadline (on Moodle): 05/12/2024, before 22h00  - 50% of the final grade