History of Philosophy II

Today we briefly went over Quine, MacIntyre, and Rawls (though we have to pick up on Rawls on Monday). The theme was how complexity has grown in our understanding of language and truth, ethics and law. I mentioned the book The Web of Belief which is on the web and a really good summary of the book here. What adds to these developments is the increase in understanding we have in the brain sciences and human psychology and sociology. For example, when trying to study ethics and ethical theory, we now know that human beings are naturally altruistic. Mirror neurons enable us to know how another person feels. This has an impact not only on ethics but also on law. The quiz question today was interesting and followed on the content of the lecture. But I don't remember what it was. Little help here? Someone?