Computers and Society Feature Article Page 6 June 1994 Who Should Teach Computer Ethics and Computers & Society? Deborah Johnson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute userfp 76@mrs.rpi. edu I am going to argue that it is best for philosophers trained in ethics and social scientists to teach, respectively, courses in computer ethics and courses in computers and society. However, before I make the case, I want to affirm the principle that it is always better that such courses be taught than that they not be taught; so, even if I show that it is best to have ethicists and social scientists teach such courses, it is still better to have someone else (e.g., a computer scientist, engineer) teach them than that they not be taught at all. course, any teacher can -- with the right set of readings and/or textbook -- do a good job of achieving the first goal, making students aware of the ethical issues surrounding computing. It is the latter three goals that are more likely to be achieved when the teacher has some training in philosophy and social science -- the more the better and preferably beyond the undergraduate level. Philosophers are specifically trained to analyze
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Who should teach computer ethics and computers & society?
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