lastly a couple of questions more broadly about the course itself.
>> Mm-hm.
>> So we have a, a few people have asked
this they want to know if we're gathering any data
or information In the responses to for example, the in
video quiz questions or other sorts of forum questions we post.
Are we, are we sort of using this for some nefarious background experiment?
>> We are not, with one exception.
We're, we're currently working
together on the, on the third, I'm sorry, on the final exam.
And the final exam will end with two questions that are not questions to be
evaluated, but questions designed to tap people's
beliefs about what they've learned in the course.
And that I am very curious about what the answers are.
And so so that's our only, that's our only data mining.
Everything else we're not going to use the data.
They're meant.
The open ended questions are meant for prompts.
But they're not going to be recorded or stored.
>> Alright.
Alright so look forward to week six quiz.
And lastly there's a, a course by Peter Singer coming
out in a Coursera that starts in I think March
first called Prac, Practical Ethics and somebody was wondering do
you recommend this as a good follow up to this course?
>> Yeah so obviously the course hasn't come
out yet it might be terrible, I don't know.
But I've signed up for it and and so, and knowing Peter Singer's
not going to be terrible.
He's a very, very smart philosopher and a gifted
teacher so I think it's going to be terrific.
It's going to be, you know, more, much, apparently much more
philosophy than my course which deals with a lot of psychology.
It may well deal with Peter Singer, defending and articulating his
views and, and making a case for them and, but I think it's going to be fascinating.
There's other sort of courses I want to, I'd, I'd recommend.
One course which I think some people on discussion boards has mentioned is
one which is already been out for a while by Michael Sandel, Unjustice.
It's a lovely Course.
And it's beautifully presented. It's very interesting.
It goes over the major philosophers.
It's a very different format. It's pure.
It's, it's, it's, there's not interaction.
It's pure lecture. But it's, it's a wonderful course.
There's also some wonderful courses by my Yale colleagues.
Tamar Gendler has a course which we, I, on Open Yale, which we've already, assign
part of Shelly Kagan, a philosopher here, has a course on death which is wonderful.
And I will also mention that Robert Wright, whose TED talk we will have seen,
is also offering a course on Buddhism and I think Buddhism and psychology.
Which I've also signed
up for.
And I think he'll connect to some moral issues, but
even if he doesn't, it's going to be very interesting.