Writing Topics for Young's Bit of Engineering Ethics

Your thesis papers shall be submitted through Turnitin.com, details in syllabus, see madwizard.com/turnitin.htm for general information on TII.

Papers should be double spaced, at least three pages, and may be submitted as .odf, .doc. .docx, .pdf or any other format TII accepts.

And remember:

    A Thesis Paper starts with a statement of your thesis (or "unthesis") as its very first sentence.
    There will be a thesis paragraph instead of an introduction.
    A Thesis Paper does not have an introduction.
    A Thesis Paper does not have a conclusion.

Established Topics:

If you pick one of these topics, follow the link to the prompt, read the prompt, and follow the prompt. This is important because, if you don't follow the prompt, you are not doing the assignment. If you don't do the assignment, you get zero points. If you write something that's not a response to the prompt, and turn in whatever it is instead of the assignment, you get zero points.

Here are the links to the prompts for this assignment.

Follow this link for : Can computers ever be conscious?

Follow this link for : Has it been proved that we are most likely living in a simulated universe?

Follow this link for : R42: What does it take to be a person?

Follow this link for : KYLA. What does it mean to be real?

Follow this link for : What is "Free Will" and do humans have it?

Follow this link for : What is "free will," and could we eventually build a free-willed robot?

Follow this link for : Analyze and evaluate the Divine Command theory of morality.

Follow this link for civil disobedience,

Follow this link for Ship of Theseus  (Alt link: Theseus.)

Follow this link for : What is the basis of Personal Identity? 

Follow this link for : Are there any Non-Human People?

Follow this link for :Ethics of hate speech

Follow this link for :Ethics of tolerance