Topic Index

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

A edition (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
a posteriori (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
a priori (9)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
a priori concepts
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
a priori knowledge (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
a priori synthetic judgments (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
A star (notation)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
A.J. Ayer
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Abraham and Isaac
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
absolutism
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
abstract entities
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
accidents
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Achilles
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Achilles and the tortoise
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Ackermann function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
acting merely in accordance with the moral law
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
acting out of respect for the moral law (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Action at a Distance
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
action guiding (5)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
actions and passions (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
active motion and passive motion (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
actual infinite past series (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
actual infinity (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
actualist
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
actually infinite (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
ad hominem (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Adam (Hume) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Adams, Douglas
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
adequate cause (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
adjacent spatio-temporal points
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
aesthetic ideas (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
aesthetic magnitude (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
affect (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
affectivity
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
affinity of character to logic (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
affirmation of barbarism (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
After Physics (book)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
afterlife (Benjamin) (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
afterlife of poetic work
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
agora (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Aharonov-Bohm effect
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Aharonov, Yakir (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
aisthesis
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Alan Gibbard
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
alchemy
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Alcibiades
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
aletheia
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Alexander the Great
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
algebraic numbers (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
algebraic real numbers (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
algorithm (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
algorithmic shortcut (6)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Alice Ambrose
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
aliens (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
all motion is impossible (Zeno)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
all-destroying Kant
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Allegory of the Cave
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
almost surely
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
alteration
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
alternating harmonic series
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
alternating series
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
ambiguity to paradox (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
amendation of the intellect (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
amor fati
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
amor mundi
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
analysis (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
analytic (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
analytic a priori (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
analytic from synthetic statements
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
analytic judgment (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
analytic knowledge (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
analytic philosophy (4)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
analytic sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
analytic truths (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
ancient Greece (5)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Angelus Novus (Klee artwork)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
anger (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
anguish (Sartre)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Animal Liberation Movement
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
animalism (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Anita Allen
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Anthony Appiah
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
anthropomorphic representations of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
anti-consequentialist
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
anti-realism (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Antigone
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
antinomies
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
antinomy
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
antinomy of pure reason
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
aporia (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
appearances (Kant) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
appetitive part (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
appetitive soul
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
applied ethics
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
arational
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
arbitrary
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
arbitrary set potentialism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
arcades (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Arcades Project (Benjamin) (6)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
archer (Aristotle)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Archimedean spiral
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Archimedes (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
architect (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
arctangent function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Are pious things pious because the gods love them, or do the gods love them because they're pious (Euthyphro)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
arete (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Aristophanes (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Aristotelian potentialism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Aristotelian syllogisms
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Aristotle (13)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Aristotle's wheel
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
arithmetic
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
arrow paradox
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Arthur Danto
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
artifact
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
artificial intelligence (4)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
artisan analogy (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
associative operation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
astral projection
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
asymptotic approach
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Athena
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
attributes (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
authority
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
autobiographical narrative
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
autonomous (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
autonomous rational agent
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
autonomy (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
aviary model (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
awakening (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
ax murderer (Kant counterexample)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
axiom of choice (5)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
axiom of countable choice
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
axiom of separation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
axioms
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love