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

radical branching (potentialism)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 49:51 transcript ↗︎
Rain Dogs (album) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 34:34 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 13:30 transcript ↗︎
random choice balls in a sack
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 18:57 transcript ↗︎
rational animals
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 2:16 transcript ↗︎
rational numbers (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 0:32 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 12:20 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 18:12 transcript ↗︎
rational thought (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 29:42 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 1:56 transcript ↗︎
rationalism (5)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 16:57 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 11:10 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 14:04 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 0:21 transcript ↗︎
rationalism and empiricism (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 4:22 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 17:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎
real numbers (6)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 36:32 transcript ↗︎
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 50:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 43:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 21:34 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎
realistic
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 2:18 transcript ↗︎
reason (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 26:16 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 15:03 transcript ↗︎
recollection
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 2:48 transcript ↗︎
recreating his self
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 1:28 transcript ↗︎
recurrence relation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
▶︎ 44:16 transcript ↗︎
recursion
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 11:13 transcript ↗︎
reduces
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 2:35 transcript ↗︎
reduction (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 41:21 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 49:24 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 2:15 transcript ↗︎
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 1:13 transcript ↗︎
redundant work (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 2:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 17:54 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 7:18 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 9:59 transcript ↗︎
reference and intentionality
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
▶︎ 4:33 transcript ↗︎
reflexive order
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 27:58 transcript ↗︎
regulative (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 41:46 transcript ↗︎
regulative and not constitutive (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 31:42 transcript ↗︎
regulative self
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 12:00 transcript ↗︎
relations of ideas (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
▶︎ 28:09 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 0:32 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 6:34 transcript ↗︎
relativism (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?
▶︎ 8:05 transcript ↗︎
relativism of Protagoras
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 2:56 transcript ↗︎
repeatable
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 6:00 transcript ↗︎
replacement axiom
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:15:04 transcript ↗︎
Riemann hypothesis
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 34:52 transcript ↗︎
Riemann rearrangement theorem
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 36:47 transcript ↗︎
Riemann, Bernhard
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 36:47 transcript ↗︎
Robertson-Seymour theory
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 28:19 transcript ↗︎
Robinson Crusoe (novel)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 2:19 transcript ↗︎
Rosen, Nathan (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 1:09:37 transcript ↗︎
Rota, Gian-Carlo (mathematician)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 55:45 transcript ↗︎
row of dominoes (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 44:13 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 2:22 transcript ↗︎
RSA encryption
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 7:56 transcript ↗︎
Rule One (von Neumann) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 36:28 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:33 transcript ↗︎
Rule Two (von Neumann) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 36:28 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:33 transcript ↗︎
running around the hearth
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 36:05 transcript ↗︎
running time
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 18:07 transcript ↗︎
Russell set
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:26:13 transcript ↗︎
Russell, Bertrand (4)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
▶︎ 0:31 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:23:05 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 37:39 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 38:47 transcript ↗︎