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

n cross n (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
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Nadler, Steven (Spinoza scholar)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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Nash, John
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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natural log of 2
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
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natural number lattice
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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natural numbers (7)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
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Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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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 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
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natural philosophy
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 3:40 transcript ↗︎
Natural Selection (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 11:05 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
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naturalized ethics
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
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necessarily
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 28:11 transcript ↗︎
necessary and universal (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 37:27 transcript ↗︎
necessary properties
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 15:28 transcript ↗︎
necessitarian
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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neither route (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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nested interval argument
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 17:55 transcript ↗︎
neural pathways
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 34:28 transcript ↗︎
neutron interferometry
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
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neutrons
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎
never stop growing (Nietzsche)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 11:28 transcript ↗︎
new computational paradigms
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 5:46 transcript ↗︎
Newton, Isaac (5)
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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Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
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Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
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David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 13:18 transcript ↗︎
Newton's Laws of Motion
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 14:52 transcript ↗︎
Newton's Shadow Theory of Gravitation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 18:38 transcript ↗︎
Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
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Newtonian mechanics (4)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
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Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
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Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 46:02 transcript ↗︎
Newtonian physics (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 33:18 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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David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 20:30 transcript ↗︎
Nietzsche, Friedrich (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Entire course
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Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 5:27 transcript ↗︎
nihilism (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
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nobility (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
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non-being is not (Parmenides)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
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non-deterministic polynomial
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 38:46 transcript ↗︎
non-knowledges (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
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nonlinear form of potentialism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
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Norsen, Travis (physicist) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
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Novum Organon (book)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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NP problems (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
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Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
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NP-complete (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
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Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
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Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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NP-complete problem (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 34:31 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 2:13 transcript ↗︎
NP-completeness (5)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 9:30 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 26:36 transcript ↗︎
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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Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 2:44 transcript ↗︎
NP-intermediate
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
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number and numeral
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
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numerically finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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