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

objective (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 34:27 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 20:26 transcript ↗︎
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?
▶︎ 31:56 transcript ↗︎
objective principle of taste
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?
▶︎ 30:40 transcript ↗︎
objective temporal order
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?
▶︎ 33:29 transcript ↗︎
objective value
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 30:30 transcript ↗︎
objects of possible experience (4)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
▶︎ 56:55 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Why the Cosmos Breaks Reason
▶︎ 0:32 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?
▶︎ 0:12 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?
▶︎ 0:43 transcript ↗︎
observational discourse (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?
▶︎ 33:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality
▶︎ 31:55 transcript ↗︎
observational terms
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions
▶︎ 27:47 transcript ↗︎
Odysseus (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 4:50 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 0:12 transcript ↗︎
Oedipus (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character
▶︎ 36:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience
▶︎ 17:52 transcript ↗︎
office holder (Olson analogy)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
▶︎ 1:06:42 transcript ↗︎
old law of the hunt (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 4: Realizing the Irretrievability of the Past in Memory
▶︎ 22:47 transcript ↗︎
Olson, Eric (philosopher)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
▶︎ 41:24 transcript ↗︎
Olson, Eric (philosopher) (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 45:14 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?
▶︎ 57:50 transcript ↗︎
Olympian gods
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character
▶︎ 24:29 transcript ↗︎
omnibenevolence
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 19:53 transcript ↗︎
omnipotence (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 19:42 transcript ↗︎
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
▶︎ 2:58 transcript ↗︎
omniscience (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 19:35 transcript ↗︎
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 1:27 transcript ↗︎
omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 11:30 transcript ↗︎
On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 0:12 transcript ↗︎
On the Concept of History (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 45:52 transcript ↗︎
On the Mind-Body Problem (essay)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 32:23 transcript ↗︎
one-to-one (8)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
▶︎ 23:45 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 0:48 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 1:38 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 2:25 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 3:15 transcript ↗︎
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages
▶︎ 16:28 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 5:51 transcript ↗︎
one-to-one correspondence (6)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 0:52 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 15:33 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 1:38 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 3:15 transcript ↗︎
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 6: Every Epoch Dreams the One to Follow
▶︎ 6:36 transcript ↗︎
one-to-one function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 2:38 transcript ↗︎
onion peeling (Spinoza metaphor)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 39:29 transcript ↗︎
ontological
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 24:36 transcript ↗︎
ontological argument (3)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses
▶︎ 4:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?
▶︎ 7:18 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?
▶︎ 10:18 transcript ↗︎
ontological flexibility of language
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End
▶︎ 36:53 transcript ↗︎
ontological proof
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 11:56 transcript ↗︎
ontologically light (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 24:14 transcript ↗︎
ontology (3)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?
▶︎ 3:00 transcript ↗︎
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End
▶︎ 21:56 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 30:39 transcript ↗︎
Ontology Made Easy
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions
▶︎ 37:44 transcript ↗︎
opinion (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 28:47 transcript ↗︎
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence
▶︎ 9:14 transcript ↗︎
Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?
▶︎ 23:18 transcript ↗︎
order infinite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 7:31 transcript ↗︎
ordinals
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 25:50 transcript ↗︎
ordinary language philosophy (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End
▶︎ 10:19 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers
▶︎ 4:57 transcript ↗︎
ordinary survival
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 4:49 transcript ↗︎
organic unity
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages
▶︎ 8:46 transcript ↗︎
organism (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 16:56 transcript ↗︎
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 10:50 transcript ↗︎
Organon
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 36:22 transcript ↗︎
orientation
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 13:50 transcript ↗︎
Orientation Essay (Kant essay)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence
▶︎ 18:53 transcript ↗︎
Origin of German Trauerspiel (book)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 50:13 transcript ↗︎
original guilt (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character
▶︎ 1:55 transcript ↗︎
originality (Kant)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language
▶︎ 41:28 transcript ↗︎
our essence to be more than any essence (Nietzsche)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 9:12 transcript ↗︎
outer boundary in space
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Lecture 2: Why the Cosmos Breaks Reason
▶︎ 13:55 transcript ↗︎
overlapping chain of connections (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together
▶︎ 9:38 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two
▶︎ 34:21 transcript ↗︎
owner's manual for human life (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working
▶︎ 1:04 transcript ↗︎