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

Dantzig, George (mathematician) (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
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Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
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dart board (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 25:00 transcript ↗︎
Darwin, Charles (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 10:52 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
▶︎ 8:57 transcript ↗︎
Daumier, Honoré
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 38:46 transcript ↗︎
David Kaplan
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers
▶︎ 47:31 transcript ↗︎
David Lewis (philosopher)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
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David Wallace (philosopher of physics)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 52:51 transcript ↗︎
de Man, Paul (literary theorist)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages
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Deal with the Devil (thought experiment)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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death (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
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Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working
▶︎ 6:05 transcript ↗︎
death of God
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Entire course
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Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 14:22 transcript ↗︎
decidability
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
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decimal notation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
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decision problem
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
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declarative mood
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality
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decline of tradition (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
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deconstruction
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 44:19 transcript ↗︎
Dedekind arithmetic
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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Dedekind cut
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
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Dedekind finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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Dedekind infinite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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Dedekind, Richard (6)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
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Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
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Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
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Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
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deductive method
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 19:04 transcript ↗︎
deep truth (Bohr)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 19:33 transcript ↗︎
definability is not definable
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 48:51 transcript ↗︎
definition (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
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Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 12:00 transcript ↗︎
definition by recursion
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 24:48 transcript ↗︎
definitions and objections (Socratic dialogues) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 1: Socrates Made Athens Question Everything
▶︎ 16:40 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 12:57 transcript ↗︎
deflationary
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?
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dementia
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 45:55 transcript ↗︎
denies knowledge (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
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density
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
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deontic modal language
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality
▶︎ 14:30 transcript ↗︎
deontology (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Intro: Are You a Good Person?
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Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
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dependent co-origination
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
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depth of experience (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
▶︎ 11:30 transcript ↗︎
Derrida, Jacques (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
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Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages
▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎
Descartes, René (13)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Entire course
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Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
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Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
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Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
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Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
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Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
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Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
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Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
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Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
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Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 29:58 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 38:24 transcript ↗︎
descriptive analyses
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
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descriptive view
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality
▶︎ 7:14 transcript ↗︎
desert island (Lee Braver) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
▶︎ 16:47 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 2:01 transcript ↗︎
deserving to be happy (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
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design arguments
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
▶︎ 26:33 transcript ↗︎
desire
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 6:05 transcript ↗︎
detector (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 30:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 8:03 transcript ↗︎
Determinism (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 46:45 transcript ↗︎
Deus sive natura
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 46:03 transcript ↗︎
device of generalization
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?
▶︎ 7:47 transcript ↗︎
diachronic
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 1: Are You Your Mind or Body?
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diachronic unity of consciousness
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
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diagonal argument
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 4:33 transcript ↗︎
diagonalization (4)
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?
▶︎ 36:19 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 50:59 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 16:44 transcript ↗︎
dialogue
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (book) (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
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Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 4:08 transcript ↗︎
diatribes versus dialogues
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 43:34 transcript ↗︎
different species (Lee Braver) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 10:45 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life
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digression (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 16:46 transcript ↗︎
Dijkstra, Edsger (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 45:24 transcript ↗︎
Dijkstra's algorithm (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 45:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 14:26 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 1:34 transcript ↗︎
Dirac equation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:18:43 transcript ↗︎
discoloration (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
▶︎ 32:34 transcript ↗︎
discrete linear order with endpoints
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 4:25 transcript ↗︎
discretely finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 10:57 transcript ↗︎
discursive knowledge
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 35:27 transcript ↗︎
discursive understanding
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?
▶︎ 43:19 transcript ↗︎
disinterested (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?
▶︎ 52:55 transcript ↗︎
disjoint paths
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 27:37 transcript ↗︎
distinction between the countably infinite and the uncountably infinite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
▶︎ 0:21 transcript ↗︎
distinction between the potentially infinite and the actually infinite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
▶︎ 0:14 transcript ↗︎
divergent
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 31:00 transcript ↗︎
divine analogy (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence
▶︎ 58:26 transcript ↗︎
divine breath
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 7:37 transcript ↗︎
divine command theory
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 29:59 transcript ↗︎
divisibility of a line segment
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 2:05 transcript ↗︎
doctrinal belief (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence
▶︎ 17:55 transcript ↗︎
dogmatic
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 4:25 transcript ↗︎
dogmatic atheism
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
▶︎ 21:34 transcript ↗︎
dogmatic slumbers
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 4:14 transcript ↗︎
dogmatism (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
▶︎ 12:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Why the Cosmos Breaks Reason
▶︎ 3:10 transcript ↗︎
dominion over the animals
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 10:52 transcript ↗︎
dormitive virtue explanation (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End
▶︎ 25:44 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?
▶︎ 30:20 transcript ↗︎
double slit experiments
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎
doubt
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 2:35 transcript ↗︎
doubting
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 2:49 transcript ↗︎
Doxa
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 23:34 transcript ↗︎
draw the line objection (ultrafinitism)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 18:45 transcript ↗︎
dream argument (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 24:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 31:58 transcript ↗︎
dream images (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
▶︎ 26:05 transcript ↗︎
dream solution (continuum hypothesis)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 42:46 transcript ↗︎
dream theory (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 18:29 transcript ↗︎
dreams
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 29:32 transcript ↗︎
driving directions (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 1:55 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 30:44 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
dualism (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 2:19 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 42:23 transcript ↗︎
Dupin (fictional detective)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 40:52 transcript ↗︎
Dürer, Albrecht
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 51:24 transcript ↗︎
duty
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
▶︎ 47:40 transcript ↗︎
duty for duty's sake (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 5: Must Morality Crush Our Desires?
▶︎ 2:45 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence
▶︎ 38:58 transcript ↗︎
dye in wool (Aristotle)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 18:56 transcript ↗︎
dynamic variation in power (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 12:51 transcript ↗︎
dynamical sublime
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 5: Must Morality Crush Our Desires?
▶︎ 39:59 transcript ↗︎
dysfunctional
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working
▶︎ 0:21 transcript ↗︎