Topic Index

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

Gabriel's horn

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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

▶︎ 11:57 transcript ↗︎

Galileo (8)

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 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 39:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 5:03 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 1:47 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 12:55 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 3:25 transcript ↗︎

Galileo Galilei (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 43:13 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎

Galileo's paradox (4)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 1:53 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:05:29 transcript ↗︎

Galileo's wheel

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 8:22 transcript ↗︎

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎

general comprehension principle

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:23:26 transcript ↗︎

General Theory of Relativity

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 55:17 transcript ↗︎

genuine progress (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:42 transcript ↗︎

geocentric

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

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 7:22 transcript ↗︎

geocentric world

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

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 9:20 transcript ↗︎

geometric series (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 14:12 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 1:03 transcript ↗︎

geometrical order

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 10:48 transcript ↗︎

geometry

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

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 21:07 transcript ↗︎

German idealism

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

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 45:21 transcript ↗︎

Gestalt psychologists

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 23:26 transcript ↗︎

Gettier problem

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 12:03 transcript ↗︎

Gettier, Edmund

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 11:22 transcript ↗︎

Ghirardi, Romini, and Weber (physicists)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 6:07 transcript ↗︎

glutton (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 30:42 transcript ↗︎

God's eye view

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

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 39:12 transcript ↗︎

Gödel, Kurt (5)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 44:26 transcript ↗︎

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 8:24 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:41 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 30:51 transcript ↗︎

Gödel's incompleteness theorem (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 8:35 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 9:27 transcript ↗︎

Google Maps (Lee Braver analogy) (2)

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

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 2:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 33:56 transcript ↗︎

googol

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 1:43 transcript ↗︎

Googol bang (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 20:08 transcript ↗︎

Googol stack (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 23:17 transcript ↗︎

googolplex (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 16:14 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 16:31 transcript ↗︎

Graham's number

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 29:37 transcript ↗︎

graph isomorphism

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 8:47 transcript ↗︎

Gravitational Waves

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 57:50 transcript ↗︎

grow up (Lee Braver) (2)

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

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 11:28 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 21:30 transcript ↗︎

GRW theory

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 6:18 transcript ↗︎

guidance of reason (Spinoza)

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 28:26 transcript ↗︎