Topic Index

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

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

▶︎ 3:51 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 5:03 transcript ↗︎

balls in a sack (supertask puzzle)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 12:10 transcript ↗︎

bang plex stack hierarchy

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 22:13 transcript ↗︎

barber paradox

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:30:51 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 ↗︎

Baruch Spinoza

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

begging the question

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 21:07 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 ↗︎

beliefs

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

▶︎ 8:23 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 1:05:27 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 1:05:39 transcript ↗︎

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 ↗︎

Berkeley, George

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 42:10 transcript ↗︎

Bernstein, Felix (mathematician)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 33:09 transcript ↗︎

Berry, G.G. (librarian)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 37:29 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 14:21 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 26:16 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 12:48 transcript ↗︎

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 ↗︎

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

▶︎ 5:36 transcript ↗︎

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 2:59 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 7:51 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 46:39 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 12:03 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 20:32 transcript ↗︎

birth of computer science (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 7:40 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 2:50 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 3:02 transcript ↗︎

Bletchley Park (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 7:29 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 2:04 transcript ↗︎

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?

▶︎ 24:36 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 54:20 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 25:37 transcript ↗︎

Bohm, David (physicist) (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 46:18 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 6:26 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 54:17 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 1:13 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 12:22 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 23:03 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 52:19 transcript ↗︎

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 ↗︎

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 ↗︎

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

▶︎ 29:24 transcript ↗︎

busy beaver function

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 18:42 transcript ↗︎