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

macroscopic (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 27:20 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 4:01 transcript ↗︎
magnetic fields (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 3:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 36:02 transcript ↗︎
man is the measure of all things (3)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 35:45 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 3:07 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 1:03 transcript ↗︎
Many Worlds? (book)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 52:31 transcript ↗︎
many-worlds interpretation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 36:25 transcript ↗︎
marital status of the number five (David Albert) (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 8:52 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 5:17 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 27:15 transcript ↗︎
Martin's axiom
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 41:43 transcript ↗︎
matching problems
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 17:37 transcript ↗︎
Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (book)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 35:16 transcript ↗︎
matrix multiplication
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 29:44 transcript ↗︎
matters of fact (Hume) (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 28:54 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 0:25 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 14:00 transcript ↗︎
Maudlin, Tim (philosopher of physics) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 15:03 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:23:41 transcript ↗︎
maxims
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 30:50 transcript ↗︎
Maxwell, James Clerk
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 32:40 transcript ↗︎
Maxwell's Equations
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 32:40 transcript ↗︎
Maxwellian Electrodynamics (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 33:36 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 46:45 transcript ↗︎
measurement
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 37:11 transcript ↗︎
measurement problem (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 10:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 17:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:05 transcript ↗︎
mechanization of nature
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 5:42 transcript ↗︎
Meditations on First Philosophy
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Meletus (Socrates' accuser)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 39:20 transcript ↗︎
memory-free strategy
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 40:00 transcript ↗︎
mental arithmetic
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 40:13 transcript ↗︎
mental geography (Hume)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 9:33 transcript ↗︎
mental reflex (Hume)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 34:25 transcript ↗︎
mergesort
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 13:38 transcript ↗︎
metaphysics (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 7:16 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 3:53 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 12:36 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 18:02 transcript ↗︎
methodological doubt (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 16:47 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 0:38 transcript ↗︎
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 1:03 transcript ↗︎
Middle Ages
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎
midwife (Socrates) (3)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 27:06 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 25:02 transcript ↗︎
Milky Way galaxy (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 10:01 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 3:46 transcript ↗︎
Millennium Problems (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 6:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 34:30 transcript ↗︎
mind-body causality
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 43:50 transcript ↗︎
mind-body problem
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 32:34 transcript ↗︎
mind-body relations
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 1:13 transcript ↗︎
mind/body dualism
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 40:58 transcript ↗︎
minimal criminal
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 35:48 transcript ↗︎
minimax theorem
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 54:54 transcript ↗︎
misperception
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 29:42 transcript ↗︎
modal logic (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 27:20 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 33:38 transcript ↗︎
Modal Model Theory (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 48:18 transcript ↗︎
modal semantics
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 27:31 transcript ↗︎
mode of extension
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 7:24 transcript ↗︎
modernism
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 2:58 transcript ↗︎
modes
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 40:52 transcript ↗︎
modes of God (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 19:37 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 14:02 transcript ↗︎
modified Gabriel's horn
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 27:34 transcript ↗︎
momentum
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 33:40 transcript ↗︎
monism and dualism
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 9:05 transcript ↗︎
Moore, Gordon (Intel co-founder)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 19:18 transcript ↗︎
Moore's law
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 19:18 transcript ↗︎
more committees than people (Cantor allegory)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:16:28 transcript ↗︎
more fruit salads than fruits (Cantor allegory)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:20:15 transcript ↗︎
most contested equation in middle school (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 7:54 transcript ↗︎
motion and rest (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 13:48 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 15:22 transcript ↗︎
multiverse view (set theory) (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 50:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 41:04 transcript ↗︎
my perception is true for me (Protagoras)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 33:31 transcript ↗︎
myth of individuality
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 18:56 transcript ↗︎