COMPUTERS AND PHILOSOPHY – SPRING 2011 (students' names omitted)
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
January 10

First Day
of Class
11 12

Topic Lists
Due
13 14 15
16 17

No Class
Martin Luther
King Day
18 19

Minds, Brains,
and Programs
20 21

Consequences
of AI

(Student Day)
22
23 24

Ethics and AI

(Student Day)
25 26

Dependence on
Technology

(Student Day)
27 28

Quiz 1
29
30 31

Technology and
Language

(Student Day)
1 February 2

No Class
Snow Day
3 4

The Internet
Self

(Student Day)
5
6 7

Interaction with
Technology

(Student Day)
8 9

Emergent
Behavior

(Student Day)
10 11

IT and Moral
Philosophy


Chapter 7
12
13 14

Video Game
Addiction

(Student Day)
15 16

Catfish
17 18

Catfish
19
20 21

Anonymity
Online

(Student Day)
22 23

Viruses and
Hacking

(Student Day)
24 25

No Class
Snow Day
26
27 28

Quiz 2
1 March 2

Online Stalking

(Student Day)
3 4

Piracy

(Student Day)
5
6 7

No Class
Spring Break
8 9

No Class
Spring Break
10 11

No Class
Spring Break
12
13 14

Intellectual
Property

(Student Day)
15 16

Patent and
Copyright Law

(Student Day)
17 18

Quiz 3
19
20 21

Wikileaks

(Student Day)
22 23

Net Neutrality

(Student Day)
24 25

IT and Moral
Philosophy


Chapter 15
26
27 28

Censorship

(Student Day)
29 30

Replacing
Human Labor

(Student Day)
31 April 1

IT and Moral
Philosophy


Chapter 18
2
3 4

Producer/
Consumer

(Student Day)
5 6

Media
Consumption

(Student Day)
7 8

Quiz 4
9
10 11

Post-Scarcity

(Student Day)
12 13

Death of
News Media

(Student Day)
14 15

IT and Moral
Philosophy


Chapter 6
16
17 18

Technology and
Education

(Student Day)
19 20

Quantum
Computing

(Student Day)
21 22

23
24 25

Warfare
Technology

(Student Day)
26 27

Video Games

(Student Day)
28 29

Quiz 5

Last Day
of Class
30
1 May 2 3 4

Final Exam

1:15 – 3:15pm
5 6