Topic Index
Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.
P equal to NP (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
P not equal to NP (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
P versus NP (6)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
P versus NP question (5)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
paint-based theory of surface area
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
painter's paradox
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
pairing function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
paradox of giants
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
paradox of supertasks
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
paradox of the miniature human
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
paradoxes of infinity
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Paradoxes of the Infinite (book)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
parallel postulate
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
parallelism (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Parmenides (4)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
part three (Spinoza's Ethics) (4)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
partial products (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
parts and wholes
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
passive observation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
pathological individuation
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Pavlov, Ivan
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Pavlov's dogs
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Peano, Giuseppe
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Pentium chip
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
perfect set
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
perfect squares (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Phaedo (dialogue) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Phaedrus (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Phaenarete (Socrates' mother)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
phenomenology
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
philosopher kings
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Phoenicians
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
photons
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
physical digression (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
picture of the universe
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
pig and the baboon (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
pigeonhole principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
pineapples (Hume)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
pink sunglasses (Kant analogy) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
placebo effect
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Plato (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Platonic eros
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
playing the game and making up the rules at the same time (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Podolsky, Boris (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Poincaré conjecture
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Poincaré disk model
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
polar coordinates
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
polynomial (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
polynomial time (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
polynomial-time algorithm (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
position
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
positional number system
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
positive rational numbers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
possible
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
post-quantum cryptography
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Postulate of Collapse
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
postulates (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
potential infinity (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
potentialism (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
potentialist character
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
potentialist translation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
potentially infinite (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
potion for wisdom and memory (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
power of computation
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
power of pre-processing
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
power set (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
power set of the natural numbers (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
power set of the real numbers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Poynting, John Henry (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
prediction
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
prime factorization (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Principle of Locality
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
probabilistic law (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
probability claims
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
probability problem in Many-Worlds
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
probability zero
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
problem of induction
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
process philosophy
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Prodicus (sophist)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
programs as data
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
projective sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
proof by contradiction (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
propagation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
proper part (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
proportion of motion and rest (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Proposition 45 (Spinoza's Ethics)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Proposition Thirty-Seven (Spinoza's Ethics)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
propositions (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Protagoras (4)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
psyche
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
public key encryption
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
purely rational thinking things
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
putting your judgment into words
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge