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Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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

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Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

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Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

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Galileo Galilei (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

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Galileo's paradox (4)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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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Galileo's wheel

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

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Garve, Christian (Kant contemporary)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 2: Why the Cosmos Breaks Reason

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Gatsby (Fitzgerald character)

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together

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Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

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Gavarni, Paul (French caricaturist)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

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gender

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working

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general comprehension principle

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

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general metaphysics (2)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

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general representations (4)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

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Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

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Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?

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Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses

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General Theory of Relativity

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

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Genesis (2)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

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Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character

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genius (2)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?

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Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

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genuine progress (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

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geocentric

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

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geocentric world

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

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

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geometric series (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

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geometrical order

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

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geometry

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

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

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German idealism

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

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

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German Romanticism

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

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Gestalt psychologists

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

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Gettier problem

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

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Gettier, Edmund

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

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Ghirardi, Romini, and Weber (physicists)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

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Gilbert Ryle (2)

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

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Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End

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glass architecture

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

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Glaube (Kant)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

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glutton (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

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God of the gaps

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

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God's eye view

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

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

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Gödel, Kurt (5)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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Intro: Computation and Its Limits

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

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Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

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Gödel's incompleteness theorem (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

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Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

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Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory

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going to the dentist (Mill example)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?

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golden mean (3)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom

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Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers

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good life (5)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers

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Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life

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

Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race

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Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

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good person (8)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Intro: Are You a Good Person?

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Lecture 1: Socrates Made Athens Question Everything

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Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions

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Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life

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Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom

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

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

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Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two

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good will (4)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

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Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

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Lecture 5: Must Morality Crush Our Desires?

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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

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googol

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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Googol bang (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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Googol stack (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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googolplex (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

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Graham's number

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?

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grammatical metaphor (3)

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

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Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions

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Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality

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Grandville (French caricaturist)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow

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graph isomorphism

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

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Gravitational Waves

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

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great chain of being

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

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greatest happiness principle (6)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?

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Lecture 4: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

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Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions

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