Listen now to No Such Thing, to hear Marc Lesser's cramming session with his high school philosophy teacher, John Cleary in preparation for next week's live episode, "Code of Ethics".

Listen to No Such Thing: Episode 44

I'm cramming for my conversation next week about ethics and tech, and as I prepare I thought it would be a fun way to add some transparency to the process. Usually when I prepare for a big episode I reach out to folks in my network, I dig for sources, I spend a lot of time with the topic in my head. When I thought about who I should reach out to as I think about the roots of some of the issues we'll cover next week, I wondered, who might help me with something of a literature review on the ethics and philosophy part. As we know - but sometimes forget - many of the questions that we're asking today about ethics relevant to computer science have been asked before. There are entire schools of thought dedicated, scholars who've spent lifetimes... but I haven't reached back to those texts in forever, maybe you haven't either. So I did what anyone would do...

John P. Cleary is my high school philosophy teacher, and the first person who came to mind when I considered who would make time for me as I cram for this interview. He's a busy guy, an Assistant Professor at Raritan Valley Community College, an acclaimed stage actor, and restorer of his cabin in the woods, where I imagine he'll one day sip brandy and read poetry by a wood stove. We caught up for a bit before diving in, but the questions you hear me refer to are ones that I shot him over Facebook Chat, where he and I keep in occasional touch.

Enjoy my chat with John, it's a prep call for next weeks episode on Ethics in Tech, but if, like me, you're looking for a lit review to help you think about the scholarly history of some of civilizations' thorniest questions, here it is...

Links:

• Joe Kincheloe, The Sign of the Burger: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2255502.The_Sign_of_the_Burger
• Nat'l Association of Media Literacy: https://namle.net/
• Zimyatin's WE, Russian novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
• Neil Postman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman
• Martin Heidegger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger
• Jurgen Habermas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
• McLuhan's Mechanical Bride: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Bride
• Donna Haraway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
• Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_the_Impossible

Also Mentioned:

Mary Shelly
Orwell
Huxley
Kelner
Noam Chomsky
Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche

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