Topic Index

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

Eastern ideals of a dissipation of the sense of self

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

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 23:25 transcript ↗︎

edge

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 31:48 transcript ↗︎

Edmonds, Jack (3)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 10:33 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 17:27 transcript ↗︎

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 7:54 transcript ↗︎

Edmonds' conjecture (3)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 11:15 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 1:03 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 30:11 transcript ↗︎

EDVAC (early computer)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 3:37 transcript ↗︎

efficient computation (4)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 6:27 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 17:21 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 3:50 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 29:38 transcript ↗︎

efficient solvability

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 12:35 transcript ↗︎

efficiently verifiable solutions (4)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 13:47 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 52:09 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 30:45 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 3:50 transcript ↗︎

Einstein, Albert (4)

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

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 18:52 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 33:35 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 54:36 transcript ↗︎

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 2:28 transcript ↗︎

Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 11:14 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 1:10:37 transcript ↗︎

Electric Fields

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 28:37 transcript ↗︎

Electromagnetic Field

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 32:40 transcript ↗︎

Electromagnetic Waves (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 41:18 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 17:38 transcript ↗︎

electron mirror

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 36:12 transcript ↗︎

electrons

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 0:21 transcript ↗︎

electrostatic forces

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 8:09 transcript ↗︎

Elwes, R. H. M. (Spinoza translator)

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

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 6:57 transcript ↗︎

emend your intellect (Spinoza)

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 22:12 transcript ↗︎

emotional contagion

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

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 32:23 transcript ↗︎

empirical (2)

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 19:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 2:13 transcript ↗︎

empirical beliefs (2)

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 19:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 8:57 transcript ↗︎

empirical beliefs under good conditions

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 23:10 transcript ↗︎

empirical verification (2)

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 38:29 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 32:02 transcript ↗︎

empiricism (4)

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

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 16:47 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 13:12 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 7:12 transcript ↗︎

empty word

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 40:32 transcript ↗︎

ENIAC (early computer)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 3:37 transcript ↗︎

entanglement (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 15:23 transcript ↗︎

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 41:06 transcript ↗︎

Entscheidungsproblem

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎

enumerate

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 16:54 transcript ↗︎

epiphenomenalist

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

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

▶︎ 38:14 transcript ↗︎

episteme

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 31:33 transcript ↗︎

epistemic

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 18:02 transcript ↗︎

epistemic issue

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 34:44 transcript ↗︎

epistemological

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 24:36 transcript ↗︎

epistemological nihilism (2)

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 25:20 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 34:04 transcript ↗︎

epistemological quality

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

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 4:54 transcript ↗︎

epistemological status

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

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 4:54 transcript ↗︎

epistemology (3)

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

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 0:13 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 2:13 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 24:29 transcript ↗︎

EPR Argument

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 1:09:37 transcript ↗︎

EPR Pair

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 1:09:37 transcript ↗︎

epsilon

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 7:16 transcript ↗︎

equinumerosity

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

equinumerous (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 2:03 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 39:02 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 3:15 transcript ↗︎

eros (2)

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

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 0:33 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 6:29 transcript ↗︎

erotic dialogues (Plato)

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎

erotic ladder (Plato)

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 38:56 transcript ↗︎

essence (2)

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 36:57 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 13:37 transcript ↗︎

essence of the mind

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 42:53 transcript ↗︎

eternal truth (2)

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 27:35 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 1:11 transcript ↗︎

ethical and political relativism

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 52:10 transcript ↗︎

Euclid's Elements

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 3:37 transcript ↗︎

Euclid's principle (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 2:13 transcript ↗︎

Euclidean geometry (2)

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

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 33:18 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 32:12 transcript ↗︎

Euclides and Terpsion

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 10:57 transcript ↗︎

Everett, Hugh

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 36:14 transcript ↗︎

evil demon (2)

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 28:46 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 8:58 transcript ↗︎

evil genius argument

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 28:46 transcript ↗︎

evolution

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

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 7:59 transcript ↗︎

exhaustive search (4)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 33:51 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 1:29 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 22:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 6:48 transcript ↗︎

existence

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 36:57 transcript ↗︎

existence and essence

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 36:45 transcript ↗︎

existence is a perfection

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

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 20:37 transcript ↗︎

exoteric and esoteric

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 10:06 transcript ↗︎

expansion of the self

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 3:07 transcript ↗︎

exponential growth

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 41:44 transcript ↗︎

exponential notation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 12:21 transcript ↗︎

exponentiation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 20:37 transcript ↗︎

extended Church-Turing thesis (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 39:44 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 28:26 transcript ↗︎

extended real numbers

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 22:00 transcript ↗︎

extension

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 41:11 transcript ↗︎