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
pantheism controversy
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
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
paragraph seventy-six and seventy-seven (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
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
Parfit, Derek
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Paris Capital of the 19th Century (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Paris Commune
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
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
Paul Edwards
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Paul Horwich
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
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
perfection (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
permanent vegetative state
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
permissions
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
persistence conditions (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
personal identity (6)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
personal identity isn't what matters in survival (Parfit)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
personal timeline
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
persuasion (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Peter Strawson (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Peter van Inwagen
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
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
phase sortal (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Phelps, Michael
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
phenomenal character
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
phenomenologists
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
phenomenology
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Phenomenology of Spirit (book)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
philosopher kings
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
philosophical inquiry
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Philosophical Plumbing
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
philosophy begins in wonder
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
philosophy worthy of swine
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
phlogiston
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Phoenicians
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
photons
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
phronesis (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
physical colors (Goethe)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
physical digression (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
physico-theological argument (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
physico-theology
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
physiological colors (Goethe)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
picture of the universe
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Pietism
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
piety (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
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
plastic powers (Cudworth)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Plato (7)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Platonic Demiurge
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Platonic dialogues
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
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
pleasure and pain (4)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
pleasure and the absence of pain (Mill)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
pleasures of the agreeable (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Plunkett and Sundell
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Plutarch
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Podolsky, Boris (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Poe, Edgar Allan
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
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
polarity adjuncts
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
political philosophy
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
politicization of the aesthetics (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
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
Poseidon
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
position
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
positional number system
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
positional warfare
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
positive rational numbers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
possibility proof (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
possible
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
possible hundred dollars (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
post-critical
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
post-quantum cryptography
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
post-truth era (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
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 (4)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
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
poverty (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
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
practical knowledge (5)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
practical questions before metaphysical questions
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
practical reason (7)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
practical wisdom
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
practice of making promises
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
practicing scales (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
pragmatic approach to truth
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
pragmatic belief (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Prague school
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
pre-Socratic philosophers (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
pre-Socratics
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
precipitation
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
prediction
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
prescriptive rules
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
prescriptivist views (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
primal past (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
prime factorization (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
prince and the cobbler (Locke) (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Principle of Locality
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
principle of non-contradiction (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
principle of purposiveness (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
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 (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
problem of missing value
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
process philosophy
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Prodicus (sophist)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
profoundly disordered narratives
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
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 (book) (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
proliferation of views
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
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 assertion
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
proper function
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
proper part (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
proper principles of selection
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
properties
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
property of truth
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
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
proto-language
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Proust, Marcel (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
prudence (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
prudential
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
prudential concern (4)
prudential self-interest
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
psyche (3)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
psychiatric kinds
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
psychological category
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
psychological continuity (5)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
psychological continuity theory (3)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
psychological criterion of identity
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
psychological eudaimonism
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
psychological theory (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
public key encryption
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
pure language (Benjamin) (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
pure natural science (Kant) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
purely rational thinking things
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
purposive (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
putting your judgment into words
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Pyrrhonian skepticism
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Pyrrhonian tradition
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions