Topic Index

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

L'Éternité par les astres (book)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow

▶︎ 31:48 transcript ↗︎

La Fontaine, Jean de

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 5:58 transcript ↗︎

lacunic number

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 39:45 transcript ↗︎

Ladner's theorem

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 4:51 transcript ↗︎

Lady Macbeth

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together

▶︎ 39:24 transcript ↗︎

Lamarque, Peter (philosopher)

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?

▶︎ 2:19 transcript ↗︎

lambda calculus (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 54:14 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 27:19 transcript ↗︎

language as such (Benjamin) (3)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 4:00 transcript ↗︎

Intro: The Necessity of The Contingent

▶︎ 20:12 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

language games

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

▶︎ 16:34 transcript ↗︎

Laplanche, Jean (psychoanalyst)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎

large cardinals

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 28:57 transcript ↗︎

large language models (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 11:56 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 36:18 transcript ↗︎

largest tweetable number

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

Law Number One (von Neumann) (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

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

▶︎ 11:51 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 5:57 transcript ↗︎

Law Number Two (von Neumann)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

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

▶︎ 12:01 transcript ↗︎

law of cause and effect

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

▶︎ 1:23 transcript ↗︎

law of identity

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

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 34:39 transcript ↗︎

law of non-contradiction (2)

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

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 34:39 transcript ↗︎

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?

▶︎ 50:24 transcript ↗︎

laws of logic (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 6:05 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 24:32 transcript ↗︎

laws of nature (9)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 16:45 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 23:12 transcript ↗︎

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?

▶︎ 30:35 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses

▶︎ 27:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 19:16 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?

▶︎ 17:33 transcript ↗︎

Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?

▶︎ 7:54 transcript ↗︎

Le Corbusier

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 24:37 transcript ↗︎

least number principle

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 35:05 transcript ↗︎

Lebensphilosophie

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 39:35 transcript ↗︎

Lebesgue measure

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 29:59 transcript ↗︎

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (4)

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 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 18:08 transcript ↗︎

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

▶︎ 13:52 transcript ↗︎

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow

▶︎ 7:42 transcript ↗︎

Leibniz's universal characteristics

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 4:25 transcript ↗︎

lending money analogy

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

Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?

▶︎ 20:50 transcript ↗︎

Leonard Mlodinow (3)

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race

▶︎ 23:44 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End

▶︎ 6:58 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

▶︎ 35:13 transcript ↗︎

Les Abendio (novel)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 25:19 transcript ↗︎

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (Enlightenment writer)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 26:08 transcript ↗︎

Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (book)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 24:15 transcript ↗︎

levels of infinity

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 36:50 transcript ↗︎

Levin, Leonid (complexity theorist) (4)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 18:44 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 14:21 transcript ↗︎

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 55:31 transcript ↗︎

Lévy-Collot theorem

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 37:32 transcript ↗︎

Libertarian Party

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

Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?

▶︎ 2:25 transcript ↗︎

life (Kant)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

▶︎ 1:02:11 transcript ↗︎

LIGO Nobel Prize

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 57:50 transcript ↗︎

Lilliputians

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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

▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎

limbic system

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

Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life

▶︎ 45:10 transcript ↗︎

limit model

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 53:38 transcript ↗︎

limitations

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

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 11:18 transcript ↗︎

limitations of computation (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 4:19 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

linear programming

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 50:13 transcript ↗︎

linear programming duality

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 55:02 transcript ↗︎

linear time algorithm (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 20:29 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 1:05 transcript ↗︎

linearly finite

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 10:05 transcript ↗︎

linearly ordered (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 32:48 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 36:14 transcript ↗︎

linguistic functions (4)

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working

▶︎ 3:53 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions

▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 0:28 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race

▶︎ 2:26 transcript ↗︎

linguistics

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working

▶︎ 3:21 transcript ↗︎

Liouville constant

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 39:14 transcript ↗︎

Liouville, Joseph

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 38:54 transcript ↗︎

listing the elements (Theaetetus)

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 15:41 transcript ↗︎

literalness is the arcade (Benjamin)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 24:34 transcript ↗︎

lithography

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 38:35 transcript ↗︎

LLMs

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 6:06 transcript ↗︎

local

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 44:43 transcript ↗︎

locality

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 11:14 transcript ↗︎

localize

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 17:07 transcript ↗︎

Locke, John

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

Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind

▶︎ 17:59 transcript ↗︎

logarithmic spiral

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

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

▶︎ 38:42 transcript ↗︎

logical empiricists

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 21:16 transcript ↗︎

logical fallacy (2)

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

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 21:07 transcript ↗︎

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:27:40 transcript ↗︎

logical independence

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 45:54 transcript ↗︎

logical peculiarities of judgments of taste (Kant)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?

▶︎ 3:28 transcript ↗︎

logical positivists

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End

▶︎ 9:14 transcript ↗︎

logically coherent (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 3:06 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

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

▶︎ 20:54 transcript ↗︎

logicism

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:24:39 transcript ↗︎

logicist program

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 18:02 transcript ↗︎

logos (4)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 25:32 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 26:47 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 44:02 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 10:41 transcript ↗︎

Loos, Adolf (architect)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 24:37 transcript ↗︎

Louis Philippe (French king)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow

▶︎ 27:38 transcript ↗︎

love thy neighbor as thyself

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

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

▶︎ 37:26 transcript ↗︎

Löwenheim-Skolem theorem

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 52:56 transcript ↗︎

lower bounds

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 7:44 transcript ↗︎

lowest terms

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 31:33 transcript ↗︎

Lucas-Penrose interpretation

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

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

▶︎ 9:26 transcript ↗︎

Lwow-Warsaw School

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

▶︎ 8:26 transcript ↗︎

lying (Kant)

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

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

▶︎ 14:10 transcript ↗︎