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

B edition (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
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bachelor is unmarried
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?
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Bacon, Francis (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
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Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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bad faith
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
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bad happiness (Kant) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
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Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 31:48 transcript ↗︎
bald (Parfit example)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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balls in a sack (supertask puzzle)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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bang plex stack hierarchy
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
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barbarism (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
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barber paradox
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:30:51 transcript ↗︎
bare or mere life (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character
▶︎ 38:49 transcript ↗︎
barista paradox
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:32:14 transcript ↗︎
Barrett, Jeff (philosopher of physics)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 15:03 transcript ↗︎
Batman
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 38:31 transcript ↗︎
Baudelaire, Charles (3)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
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Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 38:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 27:38 transcript ↗︎
Bauhaus
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
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begging the question (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
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Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
▶︎ 30:51 transcript ↗︎
beginning (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 2: Why the Cosmos Breaks Reason
▶︎ 24:03 transcript ↗︎
behaviorism
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 28:24 transcript ↗︎
being (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 16:29 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 18:42 transcript ↗︎
Being and Nothingness (book)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
▶︎ 22:06 transcript ↗︎
belief (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
▶︎ 9:04 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 1:14 transcript ↗︎
believing is seeing (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
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Bell Inequality
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 1:20:55 transcript ↗︎
Bell Test Experiments
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 1:25:03 transcript ↗︎
Bell, John (physicist) (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
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Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 11:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 1:05:39 transcript ↗︎
Bell's Theorem (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 15:34 transcript ↗︎
Benedetti, Seth (Plato scholar)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 35:21 transcript ↗︎
benevolent
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 1:15 transcript ↗︎
Benjamin, Stefan (Benjamin's son)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
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Benjamin, Walter
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Entire course
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Intro: The Necessity of The Contingent
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Benjamin's essay Fate and Character
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character
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Bentham, Jeremy (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 4: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
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Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
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Berkeley, George (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
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Berlin Childhood around 1900 (book) (3)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
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Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
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Berlin Chronicle (book)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
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Bernard Gert (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race
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Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers
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Bernstein, Felix (mathematician)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
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Berry, G.G. (librarian)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
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Berry's paradox
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 37:29 transcript ↗︎
better color box (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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Beweisgrund (Kant book) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
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Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?
▶︎ 11:06 transcript ↗︎
bias in algorithms
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race
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Big Bang (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 42:38 transcript ↗︎
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 26:15 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
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Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 18:53 transcript ↗︎
bijection
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 27:59 transcript ↗︎
Bildphantasie (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 22:44 transcript ↗︎
billiard ball (Hume) (6)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
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Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 2:59 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
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Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
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Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
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binding of Isaac
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?
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bioethics
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
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biological continuity (3)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 1: Are You Your Mind or Body?
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Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
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biological or bodily criterion (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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Lecture 1: Are You Your Mind or Body?
▶︎ 41:44 transcript ↗︎
biological theory (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
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Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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biopsychosocial account
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?
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bipolarity
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 18:20 transcript ↗︎
birth of computer science (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
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Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
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black and white TV (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
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black swan
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
▶︎ 31:57 transcript ↗︎
blank slate (5)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
▶︎ 8:25 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 7:39 transcript ↗︎
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 13:03 transcript ↗︎
Blanqui, Louis Auguste (French revolutionary)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 31:17 transcript ↗︎
Bletchley Park (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
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Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
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blind generalizations
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?
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blind man who's stumbling down the right road (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
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Bloomsbury circle
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 4:43 transcript ↗︎
blue sphere (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
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boat floating down a river (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?
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Bob (Lee Braver example)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
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Bob Hale
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions
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bodily continuity theory
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Intro: Two Questions of Who You Are
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Bohm, David (physicist) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:06:08 transcript ↗︎
Bohr, Niels (5)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
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Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 54:17 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
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Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎
Bolzano, Bernard (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
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Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 29:10 transcript ↗︎
bondage (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
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Borel sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 28:02 transcript ↗︎
Born rule
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 37:58 transcript ↗︎
both routes (David Albert) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 21:52 transcript ↗︎
bounded quantifiers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 23:45 transcript ↗︎
bourgeois interior
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 28:33 transcript ↗︎
bracket fungus
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality
▶︎ 36:33 transcript ↗︎
brain stem (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life
▶︎ 45:00 transcript ↗︎
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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brain transplants (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 1: Are You Your Mind or Body?
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Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
▶︎ 31:02 transcript ↗︎
branch line case (Parfit) (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
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Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 1:23 transcript ↗︎
Breton, André (surrealist)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 38:46 transcript ↗︎
Breuer, Josef (physician)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 28:03 transcript ↗︎
Brobdingnagians
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 1:03 transcript ↗︎
broken vessel (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages
▶︎ 19:25 transcript ↗︎
Bronisław Malinowski
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions
▶︎ 18:19 transcript ↗︎
bulletproof (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 14:21 transcript ↗︎
Burgh, Albert (Spinoza correspondent)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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busy beaver function
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 18:42 transcript ↗︎