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

I delta zero
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 23:40 transcript ↗︎
I think, therefore I am (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
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Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 34:52 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 30:17 transcript ↗︎
idea (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 41:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 26:39 transcript ↗︎
imagination (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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Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 15:03 transcript ↗︎
imitation of the affects (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 32:23 transcript ↗︎
immediate impression (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 0:48 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 12:32 transcript ↗︎
immortality of the soul
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 35:23 transcript ↗︎
impossible event
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 22:54 transcript ↗︎
impression (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 32:16 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 12:41 transcript ↗︎
inadequate ideas (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 40:01 transcript ↗︎
incompatible
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 33:42 transcript ↗︎
indelible
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 27:52 transcript ↗︎
independent
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 36:10 transcript ↗︎
indubitable
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 15:33 transcript ↗︎
induction
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 20:18 transcript ↗︎
induction scheme
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 21:28 transcript ↗︎
inductive method
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 18:44 transcript ↗︎
inference
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 37:30 transcript ↗︎
infinite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
infinite matrix
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 37:11 transcript ↗︎
infinite regress (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 31:53 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 8:12 transcript ↗︎
infinite series (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
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Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 32:56 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 48:32 transcript ↗︎
infinite sum (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 5:58 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 7:06 transcript ↗︎
infinitude of primes
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 7:59 transcript ↗︎
infinity (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Entire course
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Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
▶︎ 0:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
information
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 32:47 transcript ↗︎
injective maps
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 33:19 transcript ↗︎
injustice as its own punishment
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 39:50 transcript ↗︎
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (book)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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instrumentalism (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
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Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 18:18 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 2:52 transcript ↗︎
integer programming
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 5:56 transcript ↗︎
integers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 20:56 transcript ↗︎
intellectual love of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 31:42 transcript ↗︎
intelligibility (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 14:03 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 1:23 transcript ↗︎
interactive dualist
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 38:14 transcript ↗︎
interference effects
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
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interference pattern
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 23:53 transcript ↗︎
interleaving
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 19:53 transcript ↗︎
interleaving the digits
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 7:16 transcript ↗︎
International Congress of Mathematicians
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 5:50 transcript ↗︎
intrinsic spin
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 1:43 transcript ↗︎
intrinsic value
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 49:14 transcript ↗︎
intuition (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 15:59 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 32:02 transcript ↗︎
intuitive knowledge (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 29:48 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 15:14 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 33:38 transcript ↗︎
Inverse Square Law
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 22:58 transcript ↗︎
irony
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 26:49 transcript ↗︎
irrational (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 33:42 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 23:45 transcript ↗︎
irrational numbers (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 25:10 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 41:12 transcript ↗︎
irreducibly chances
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 28:38 transcript ↗︎
isolated points
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 21:09 transcript ↗︎
isomorphic
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 24:07 transcript ↗︎
iterated exponentials
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
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