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Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics
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Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics

Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.

Communing on Computing
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Communing on Computing

 Conferences can renew our professional commitment and inspire thought on problems we face.

First-Year Research Sources
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First-Year Research Sources

Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.

Trolleyspotting
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Trolleyspotting

The Trolley Problem is not for solving, but for exploring.

Computing Ethics and Teaching It
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Computing Ethics and Teaching It

Ethics can and should be presented to computer science students in appropriate ways.

Variable Vagaries
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Variable Vagaries

The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.

FictionStein
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FictionStein

Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.

Tech U­ser Responsibility
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Tech U­ser Responsibility

User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.

Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing

The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.

The Work and Inspiration of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
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The Work and Inspiration of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

 The Newsletter of the Committee on Computing and Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association offers a wide range of scholarly work in the philosophy of...

The Work and Inspiration of the International Association For Computing and Philosophy
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The Work and Inspiration of the International Association For Computing and Philosophy

A prominent player in the philosophy of computer science includes the two disciplines in its title.

Does Nature ­Use Data?
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Does Nature ­Use Data?

Does nature use databases? Does nature use data structures?  
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