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

half marathon runners (thought experiment)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 11:43 transcript ↗︎
halfway (Zeno)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎
halting problem (7)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 23:28 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 2:43 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 50:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 32:36 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 43:19 transcript ↗︎
hard electron (David Albert) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 10:56 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 4:09 transcript ↗︎
hard problems (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 4:54 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 39:09 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 30:51 transcript ↗︎
hardness (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 3:05 transcript ↗︎
hardness box (David Albert) (4)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 4:17 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 1:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 7:37 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:08:25 transcript ↗︎
hardwiring
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 3:19 transcript ↗︎
harmonic series
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 27:01 transcript ↗︎
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 25:05 transcript ↗︎
Heidegger, Martin (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 44:00 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 1:07 transcript ↗︎
heliocentric
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 7:02 transcript ↗︎
Heraclitus (3)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 4:38 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 1:14 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 0:52 transcript ↗︎
herald of secularity (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 0:52 transcript ↗︎
hexagonal wheel (Galileo)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 8:33 transcript ↗︎
hidden variable tradition
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:06:03 transcript ↗︎
Hidden Variables
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 1:11:43 transcript ↗︎
Hilbert, David (6)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 2:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 58:06 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 2:14 transcript ↗︎
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 5:20 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 33:46 transcript ↗︎
Hilbert's bus (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 3:30 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:42 transcript ↗︎
Hilbert's Hotel (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎
Hilbert's program
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 7:58 transcript ↗︎
Hilbert's train (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 7:11 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:58 transcript ↗︎
history of philosophy (8)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 5:14 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 36:09 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 20:30 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 41:58 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 24:16 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 17:37 transcript ↗︎
how are a priori synthetic judgments possible (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 36:10 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 7:39 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 23:39 transcript ↗︎
human bondage (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 52:49 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 28:34 transcript ↗︎
human freedom (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 52:59 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 30:06 transcript ↗︎
human understanding (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 2:34 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 23:39 transcript ↗︎
Hume, David (7)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 4:20 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 1:56 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 3:08 transcript ↗︎
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 2:43 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 3:06 transcript ↗︎
Husserl, Edmund (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 7:47 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 21:26 transcript ↗︎
hyper volume
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 43:00 transcript ↗︎
hyperbolic geometry
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 46:54 transcript ↗︎
hyperbolic spiral
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 40:03 transcript ↗︎
hypercube
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 47:52 transcript ↗︎
hypersphere
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 42:10 transcript ↗︎