Topic Index

Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.

a posteriori

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 17:54 transcript ↗︎

a priori (4)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 26:40 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 4:30 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 38:19 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 3:43 transcript ↗︎

a priori knowledge

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 17:18 transcript ↗︎

a priori synthetic judgments (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 0:12 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 24:18 transcript ↗︎

A star (notation)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 39:46 transcript ↗︎

Achilles and the tortoise

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 2:07 transcript ↗︎

Ackermann function

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 26:44 transcript ↗︎

Action at a Distance

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 15:39 transcript ↗︎

actions and passions (Spinoza) (2)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 9:03 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 21:21 transcript ↗︎

active motion and passive motion (Plato)

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 20:34 transcript ↗︎

actual infinity (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 16:12 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 32:13 transcript ↗︎

actualist

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 0:42 transcript ↗︎

actually infinite (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:14 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 4:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 15:35 transcript ↗︎

ad hominem (2)

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 36:37 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 4:04 transcript ↗︎

Adam (Hume) (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 6:38 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 46:43 transcript ↗︎

adequate cause (Spinoza) (3)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 40:08 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 17:21 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 21:32 transcript ↗︎

adjacent spatio-temporal points

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 11:55 transcript ↗︎

affect (Spinoza) (3)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 6:37 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 52:38 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 20:30 transcript ↗︎

affectivity

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 0:02 transcript ↗︎

After Physics (book)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 59:56 transcript ↗︎

agora

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 28:53 transcript ↗︎

Aharonov-Bohm effect

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 46:18 transcript ↗︎

Aharonov, Yakir (physicist)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 46:18 transcript ↗︎

aisthesis

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 31:44 transcript ↗︎

alchemy

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 4:14 transcript ↗︎

Alcibiades

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 15:58 transcript ↗︎

aletheia

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 44:09 transcript ↗︎

algebraic numbers (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 51:16 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 36:59 transcript ↗︎

algebraic real numbers (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 30:00 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 38:40 transcript ↗︎

algorithm (3)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 0:43 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 0:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

algorithmic shortcut (6)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 1:59 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 1:46 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 31:15 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 1:34 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?

▶︎ 25:33 transcript ↗︎

all motion is impossible (Zeno)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 0:21 transcript ↗︎

Allegory of the Cave

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 34:31 transcript ↗︎

almost surely

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 22:24 transcript ↗︎

alteration

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 51:24 transcript ↗︎

alternating harmonic series

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 32:04 transcript ↗︎

alternating series

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 32:27 transcript ↗︎

amendation of the intellect (Spinoza) (2)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 18:07 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 38:41 transcript ↗︎

amor fati

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 37:14 transcript ↗︎

amor mundi

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 37:14 transcript ↗︎

analytic (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 18:45 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 1:27 transcript ↗︎

analytic a priori

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 27:22 transcript ↗︎

analytic judgment

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 22:51 transcript ↗︎

analytic sets

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 28:13 transcript ↗︎

anger (2)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 11:06 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 15:21 transcript ↗︎

anti-realism (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 12:27 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 27:15 transcript ↗︎

arational

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 33:36 transcript ↗︎

arbitrary set potentialism

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 36:45 transcript ↗︎

Archimedean spiral

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 39:03 transcript ↗︎

Archimedes (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:25 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 4:59 transcript ↗︎

arctangent function

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 3:45 transcript ↗︎

Aristophanes (2)

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 7:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 33:51 transcript ↗︎

Aristotelian potentialism

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 28:55 transcript ↗︎

Aristotelian syllogisms

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 18:36 transcript ↗︎

Aristotle (6)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 18:21 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 1:15 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:25 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 1:33 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 12:22 transcript ↗︎

Aristotle's wheel

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 4:24 transcript ↗︎

arithmetic

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 20:57 transcript ↗︎

arrow paradox

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 49:13 transcript ↗︎

artificial intelligence (2)

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 45:43 transcript ↗︎

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?

▶︎ 1:09 transcript ↗︎

associative operation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 14:41 transcript ↗︎

attributes (Spinoza)

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 36:44 transcript ↗︎

authority

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 2:29 transcript ↗︎

autonomous

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 49:55 transcript ↗︎

aviary model (Plato)

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 4:22 transcript ↗︎

axiom of choice (5)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 45:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 32:48 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 15:38 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 35:15 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 31:45 transcript ↗︎

axiom of countable choice

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 36:47 transcript ↗︎

axiom of separation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:30:00 transcript ↗︎

axioms

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 12:00 transcript ↗︎