Topic Index
Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.
canary in a coal mine
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Cantor Bendixson derivative
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor Bendixson process
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor Hume Principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor pairing function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor Schon principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor space (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor–Schröder–Bernstein theorem (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cantor, Georg (7)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Cantor's cruise ship (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cartesian cogito
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Cartesian coordinates (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Cartesian dualism
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Cartesian product
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
categorical (logic)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
categories
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
category mistake (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
causa sui
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
causality (6)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
cause and effect (5)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
centillion
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
certainty (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
characteristic sequence
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Charcot, Jean-Martin (neurologist)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Charged Particles
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
chocolatier (Joel David Hamkins game)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
chocolatier's game (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Church-Turing thesis (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Church, Alonzo
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
circle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
clay (Socrates)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Clay Institute (mathematics)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
clear and distinct perception (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Clifford the big red dog
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
closed sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
closure properties
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cobham-Edmonds thesis (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Cobham, Alan (computer scientist) (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
cogito
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Cogito ergo sum (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Cohen, Paul (mathematician)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Coleman, Sidney (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
collapse
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
collapse of the wave function
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
color
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
color box (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
color measurements (David Albert) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
commensurable
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
common concepts (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
common induction
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
common properties (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
comparative size principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
complementarity
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
complete (logic)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
completeness (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
complexity theorists (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
computable real numbers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
computably undecidable
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
computation
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
computation and its limits (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Computation transcends technology (Tim Roughgarden)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
computational complexity
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
computer science's fight for recognition
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
conatus (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
concepts
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
concepts of the understanding (Kant) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
conceptual framework
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
conceptual lens
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
conditionally convergent
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
conditionals
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
configuration space
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
confused ideas (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
consciousness
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
consequent conjunctions (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Conservation of Energy
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Conservation of Momentum
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
constant conjunction (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
constitutive (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
constructible universe
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
contingent (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
continuous functions
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
continuum hypothesis
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
contra Bible (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
contradiction (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
contrapositive
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
converge
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
convergent form of potentialism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cook-Levin theorem (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Cook, Stephen (computer scientist) (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Copenhagen (interpretation)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
corollary
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
correspondence (truth theory)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
corrupting the youth (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Coulomb Force
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
countable
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countable choice (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countable infinity (6)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countable union of countable sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countably additive
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countably creative
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
countably infinite subset
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Cratylus (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
creativity
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
crisis of representation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
critical philosophy (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
critique (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Critique of Pure Reason (book) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Crop, Henri (Spinoza scholar)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
cross-sectional area
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
cubists (quantum Bayesians)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
cumulative hierarchy
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Curley translation (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Curley, Edwin (Spinoza translator)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
custom or habit (Hume) (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God