Ethics of Technology: Fall 2025

Novels / Short stories

• The ones who walk away from Omelas (or a local version: PDF) by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973
• The lottery (or, a local PDF version: pdf) by Shirley Jackson, 1948. You can also watch a video showcase at The lottery
• The Murderer Ray Bradbury, 1953.
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, 1953.
• The machine stops E.M. Forster, 1909.
• The naked sunIsaac Asimov (part of I, Robot series), 1957
• Snow crash Neil Stephenson, 2000

Non fiction

Healthcare

• The emperor of all maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2011.
• The gene: an intimate history Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016.

History

• Sapiens: a brief history of humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, (2015).
• Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari, (2017).
• Lying about Hitler: History, holocaust, and the David Irving trial Richard J. Evans, 2008.
• The landscape of history: how historians map the past John Lewis Gaddis, 2002.

Philosophy

• Nicomachean ethics Aristotle.
• An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation Jeremy Bentham, 1780.
• Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill, 1863.
• The subjection of women John Stuart Mill, 1869.
• Critique of pure reason Immanuel Kant, 1781.
• Groundwork for the metaphysic of morals Immanuel Kant, 1785.
• Justice: what is the right thing to do? Michael Sandel, 2010.
• What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Michael Sandel, 2012
• he Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Michael Sandel, 2020.

Capitalism

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas Friedman, 1999.

Environment - Climate change - Humans in the world

• Natural Capitalism Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, 2000.
• The end of ice Dahr Jamail, 2019.
• Ishmael Daniel Quinn, 1995.