The course will address the effects of rapid technological advances on a number of new and traditional philosophical topics. Amongst the topics to be covered will be potential changes in our concept of personal identity as a result of biological and cognitive enhancements; the loss of privacy resulting from massive data tracking and permanent video surveillance in major cities; changes in the status of scientific evidence and the diminution of the role of human scientists as a result of automated instrumentation, computationally based simulations, and computer proof methods; the effects, primarily on financial markets, of automated trading algorithms and high frequency trading; and the extent to which these trends can or should be resisted.