Thursday classes

For Introduction to Philosophy class this morning the quiz question is the famous one: if a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody there to hear it does it make a sound? (This should set us up for our discussion of Berkeley next class.) For Ancient and Medieval Philosophy today the quiz question was how do you account for human freedom? For Introduction to Philosophy this evening the first quiz question is how do you keep the average education level of voters from resulting in poor policy in a democracy (based on average understanding of the issues instead of expert understanding)? and the second quiz is the famous one: if a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody there to hear it does it make a sound? (This should set us up for our discussion of Berkeley next class.)