CS 299/PHIL 222: Research Methods for Ethics of Technology

Fall 2024
w/ Professor Eni Mustafaraj and Professor Julie Walsh at Wellesley College
What is the class?

How do we educate the next generation of data scientists, software engineers, and user experience designers to think of their work as not just technical but also ethical? What moral responsibilities come with the design, adoption, use, and consumption of digital technology? The way that these questions are interrogated, discussed, and the sort of answers we might propose will be informed by a thoroughgoing interdisciplinary lens. Students will learn theoretical frameworks from both Philosophy and Computational and Data Sciences and work together to see how knowledge of frameworks from both disciplines serves to enrich our understanding of the ethical issues that face the development and employment of digital technologies, as well as empower us to find creative solutions.
-Wellesley Course Catologue

What did we produce?
In the fall, we did 5 various projects connecting ethics and technology, creating a website display for each. To read more about the moral and ethical ways I comprehended technology in this class, my results can be seen here hosted on the Wellesley College server.