Topic Index

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

race (2)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 4: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

▶︎ 11:11 transcript ↗︎

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Intro: Metaphysics Has Stopped Working

▶︎ 6:05 transcript ↗︎

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 agents

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions

▶︎ 18:16 transcript ↗︎

rational animal (3)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 7: Nature Looks Designed. Is It?

▶︎ 1:09:36 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

▶︎ 25:35 transcript ↗︎

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 2:16 transcript ↗︎

rational belief

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

▶︎ 10:02 transcript ↗︎

rational ideas

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 5: Must Morality Crush Our Desires?

▶︎ 39:17 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 part (3)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life

▶︎ 44:40 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny

▶︎ 16:48 transcript ↗︎

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 3:38 transcript ↗︎

rational thought (3)

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 ↗︎

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers

▶︎ 11:01 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 ↗︎

re-identification

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?

▶︎ 43:09 transcript ↗︎

reading the real (Benjamin)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 3: Tragic Fate and Comic Character

▶︎ 4:32 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 ↗︎

realities

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses

▶︎ 2:15 transcript ↗︎

reason (4)

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 ↗︎

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Intro: Are You a Good Person?

▶︎ 2:42 transcript ↗︎

Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers

▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎

Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love

Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act

▶︎ 15:03 transcript ↗︎

reason seeks the unconditioned (Kant)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

▶︎ 17:29 transcript ↗︎

Reasons and Persons (book)

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two

▶︎ 1:53 transcript ↗︎

reckless

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny

▶︎ 28:47 transcript ↗︎

recollection

Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 2:48 transcript ↗︎

reconstruction

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?

▶︎ 5:42 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 ↗︎

redness (Lee Braver analogy)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 1: Socrates Made Athens Question Everything

▶︎ 26:59 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 ↗︎

reductionist

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 3: How Your Story Holds You Together

▶︎ 3:48 transcript ↗︎

reductionist view

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two

▶︎ 33:11 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

▶︎ 9:58 transcript ↗︎

reevaluation of all values (Nietzsche)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 14:06 transcript ↗︎

reference and intentionality

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 4:33 transcript ↗︎

reflective judgment

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 1: From the Creative Word to the Fall of Language

▶︎ 44:48 transcript ↗︎

reflexive

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 2: When One Person Becomes Two

▶︎ 23:10 transcript ↗︎

reflexive order

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 27:58 transcript ↗︎

refraction

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 27:57 transcript ↗︎

refutation

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?

▶︎ 0:01 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 idea (Kant) (2)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses

▶︎ 44:49 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?

▶︎ 15:52 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 ↗︎

Reimarus, Elisa (Mendelssohn's friend)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 25:14 transcript ↗︎

Reinhold, Karl (Kant follower)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 24:05 transcript ↗︎

relations of ideas (Hume) (4)

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 ↗︎

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 1: Can We Know Anything Beyond Experience?

▶︎ 24:55 transcript ↗︎

relative mean (Aristotle)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny

▶︎ 41:01 transcript ↗︎

relativism (4)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions

▶︎ 2:06 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny

▶︎ 41:42 transcript ↗︎

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 ↗︎

relativistic

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong

▶︎ 6:20 transcript ↗︎

Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (book) (2)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?

▶︎ 55:06 transcript ↗︎

Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?

▶︎ 59:49 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 ↗︎

respect for the moral law (4)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 4: Every Proof of God Collapses

▶︎ 43:05 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?

▶︎ 1:02:50 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Must Morality Crush Our Desires?

▶︎ 2:19 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: When Belief Outruns Evidence

▶︎ 38:43 transcript ↗︎

responsibility

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers

▶︎ 9:39 transcript ↗︎

reverse chronological order (2)

Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?

Intro: Are You a Good Person?

▶︎ 4:46 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?

▶︎ 0:34 transcript ↗︎

reverse engineering (5)

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

▶︎ 2:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions

▶︎ 3:17 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: What Does 'True' Do for Us?

▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: Redefining Death, Marriage, and Race

▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality

▶︎ 0:28 transcript ↗︎

revolution of the heart (Kant)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 3: Can Free Will Escape Causation?

▶︎ 58:50 transcript ↗︎

Richard Creath

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 2: Philosophers as Conceptual Engineers

▶︎ 4:16 transcript ↗︎

Riemann hypothesis

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 34:51 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 ↗︎

Rob Cummins

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions

▶︎ 10:03 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 ↗︎

rope (Marya Schechtman analogy)

Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative

Lecture 4: Is Your Life Story a Fiction?

▶︎ 1:03:29 transcript ↗︎

Rosen, Nathan (physicist)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 1:09:37 transcript ↗︎

Ross Cameron

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 1: Why Metaphysical Debates Never End

▶︎ 36:00 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 ↗︎

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 5: Modernity and the Destruction of Experience

▶︎ 36:53 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 ↗︎

royal robe (Benjamin)

Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History

Lecture 2: Translation and the Kinship of Languages

▶︎ 19:04 transcript ↗︎

RSA encryption

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 7:56 transcript ↗︎

rule of law

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality

▶︎ 24:12 transcript ↗︎

rule of man

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 4: How 'Must' and 'May' Built Morality

▶︎ 24:12 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 ↗︎

rules of synthesis (Kant) (2)

Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions

Lecture 8: Is Beauty More Than Opinion?

▶︎ 36:23 transcript ↗︎

Interview: Did Kant Really Answer Hume?

▶︎ 32:45 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 ↗︎

Ruth Millikan

Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional

Lecture 3: Understanding Linguistic Functions

▶︎ 6:17 transcript ↗︎