Ethical Frameworks
This 8-syllable philosophy instructs us to make moral decisions based on what will create the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This substance was originally invented to be a pesticide; its later use for something worse is an example of a major NHV course concept.
What is Zyklon B?
This shape is often used to describe three important parts of any argument.
What is a triangle?
Throughout the semester, we sometimes "thought through writing" in this course tool.
What is the NHV notebook or journal (or what is a journal, what is notebook, etc)?
This project is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence--and was pretty funny and perhaps sometimes uncomfortable to explore as a class!
What is the moral machine project?
This philosopher believed in "moral" (or "categorical") imperatives and that certain things, like lying, are always wrong.
Who is Kant?
This model helps us consider who or what we owe ethical treatment.
What is the moral sphere?
A politician who points out his years of experience is primarily using this ethical appeal.
What is ethos?
In this essay, Anne Lamott tells us that no one can write a good first draft--and that's okay because we can fix it up later.
What is "Shitty First Drafts?"
This groundbreaking film that was a weekly bonus is made entirely of un-narrated film clips from the Cold War era.
What is The Atomic Cafe?
This philosopher believed in the golden mean, or finding the "just right" place between two extremes of behavior.
Who is Aristotle?
What is Cicero's Creed?
A commercial that features a whole bunch of puppies is probably using this ethical appeal.
What is pathos?
One of the most common errors in student writers is this, in which two complete sentences are connected with a comma
What is a comma splice?
Kim presented an activity that AI helped her create in a (possibly failed?) attempt to explore this concept from a recent reading.
What is a gift economy?
This form of transportation is used in a famous "problem" about utilitarianism.
What is a trolley?
Aristotle said we learn virtuous behavior from emulating these people.
What are moral exemplars?
This friendly Mines librarian is available to help you with NHV research (and design research and other types of research, too!)
Who is Brianna Buljung? (Will accept who is Brianna?)
This type of writing is writing about the writing itself--it guides the reader by explaining what the author is up to.
What is metacommentary?
An early question in this course involved a hypothetical situation about changing a report about this type of building.
What is a shopping mall?
This principle says that if we can't apply a moral rule to everyone, it's not ethical.
What is the universality principle, or what is a categorical imperative?
What is the Land of Cockaigne?
This type of source is almost always authored, reviewed, and published by university professors, graduate students, and/or researchers.
What is a scholarly source? (Or, what is an academic source?)
Donald Murray calls this part of writing the "lead" and gives writers over 15 ideas for ways to write one.
What is an introduction?
This "theory" is a framework that helps pinpoint what an argument is about: for example, what a word means, what caused something, or what action we should take.
What is stasis theory?