Early Modern Philosophy and Introduction to Philosophy lecture 23

Tuesday for Early Modern Philosophy we discussed a chain of thinkers that focus on the history of thought. Berlin, Taylor, Ignatieff, and Fukuyama. We looked at a few videos of each of them including an interview of Berlin done by Ignatieff. I did not film while watching the videos but two videos of the class are posted here and here. The quiz question was what do you think is the US obligation regarding the situation in Syria. Does the US have an obligation to militarily punish Syria's government for bombing their own people with poison gas? For Introduction to Philosophy we discussed Kant again but this time in the context of Virtual Reality as an additional complex issue. How should we conceive of Virtual Reality? As real? Watching David Chalmers argue that Virtual Reality is real - it is digital adds a current dimension to this. The quiz question was do you think VR is fake or veridical? The video is here.