Topic Index

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

S4.2 (modal logic) (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 44:37 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 34:06 transcript ↗︎

S4.3 (modal logic)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 45:20 transcript ↗︎

Sacks, Oliver

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 33:33 transcript ↗︎

sadness

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

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

▶︎ 10:58 transcript ↗︎

salvation (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 6:57 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 45:21 transcript ↗︎

Salviati (Galileo character)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 4:08 transcript ↗︎

satisfiability

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 24:20 transcript ↗︎

scholē

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

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 16:13 transcript ↗︎

scholia (2)

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 12:20 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 9:30 transcript ↗︎

scholium

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 1:55 transcript ↗︎

Schröder, Ernst

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 32:58 transcript ↗︎

Schrodinger equation (3)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 27:28 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True

▶︎ 11:40 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 1:45 transcript ↗︎

Schrödinger, Erwin (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 9:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 6:27 transcript ↗︎

scientific notation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 12:09 transcript ↗︎

scientific project (4)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 1:39 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True

▶︎ 42:32 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 13:08 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 1:20:24 transcript ↗︎

scientific realism (2)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Entire course

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Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 56:12 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 21:37 transcript ↗︎

scientific revolution (8)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 0:33 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future

▶︎ 5:03 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 1:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 3:49 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 0:55 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 0:41 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 10:55 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 43:44 transcript ↗︎

sealing wax

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 33:49 transcript ↗︎

second meditation (Descartes)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 31:40 transcript ↗︎

second order assertion

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 52:25 transcript ↗︎

second order logic

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 52:25 transcript ↗︎

secondary qualities

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 18:11 transcript ↗︎

secret doctrine (Theaetetus)

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 19:22 transcript ↗︎

secrets of LLM performance (Tim Roughgarden)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 54:30 transcript ↗︎

self-evident

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 30:18 transcript ↗︎

self-love (2)

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 4:31 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 37:58 transcript ↗︎

self-referentiality

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?

▶︎ 39:27 transcript ↗︎

self-refutation argument

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 0:19 transcript ↗︎

self-similar fractal

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 33:59 transcript ↗︎

sense of self (3)

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 1:02 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 7:59 transcript ↗︎

sensory deception (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 20:52 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 31:58 transcript ↗︎

sensory experience (2)

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 2:15 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 25:34 transcript ↗︎

set theoretic pluralism

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 41:12 transcript ↗︎

seventh letter (Plato)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 3:56 transcript ↗︎

shocking claim (Hume)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 12:17 transcript ↗︎

Shor, Peter

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 42:08 transcript ↗︎

shortest path (3)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 33:43 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

shortest path problem (3)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 0:33 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 42:59 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 2:13 transcript ↗︎

SIGACT News (newsletter)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 41:41 transcript ↗︎

simplex method (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 50:09 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 13:59 transcript ↗︎

Simplicio (Galileo character)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 4:08 transcript ↗︎

simulation (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 1:13 transcript ↗︎

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 10:10 transcript ↗︎

single-cell amoeba

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 8:09 transcript ↗︎

single-celled being

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own

▶︎ 9:33 transcript ↗︎

six dice (thought experiment)

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 13:43 transcript ↗︎

skeptical arguments (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 18:50 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 9:27 transcript ↗︎

Skeptical School

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 18:52 transcript ↗︎

skepticism

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 4:02 transcript ↗︎

Skinner, B.F.

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 28:26 transcript ↗︎

Skolem paradox

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 53:16 transcript ↗︎

small forcing extensions

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 37:53 transcript ↗︎

snub-nosed (Socrates)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 15:36 transcript ↗︎

Socrates (3)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 2:51 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 0:32 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 0:32 transcript ↗︎

Socratic fallacy

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 20:10 transcript ↗︎

Socratic wisdom

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 38:05 transcript ↗︎

source of knowledge

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 1:47 transcript ↗︎

space

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 17:27 transcript ↗︎

Spacetime Curvature

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 55:49 transcript ↗︎

special theory of relativity

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 20:15 transcript ↗︎

St. Anselm

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 12:09 transcript ↗︎

stages of knowledge (2)

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 8:50 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 40:46 transcript ↗︎

start from scratch (4)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working

▶︎ 5:25 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything

▶︎ 1:52 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 48:39 transcript ↗︎

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 22:30 transcript ↗︎

state of nature

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

Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self

▶︎ 27:22 transcript ↗︎

statistical correlations

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 7:55 transcript ↗︎

step function

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 3:16 transcript ↗︎

Stephanus numbers

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 10:47 transcript ↗︎

STOC (conference)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 28:37 transcript ↗︎

stochastic (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 17:05 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 6:59 transcript ↗︎

stock rotation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 34:02 transcript ↗︎

Stoeckl finite

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 13:23 transcript ↗︎

straightedge and compass

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

▶︎ 4:18 transcript ↗︎

Strassen's algorithm

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

▶︎ 29:34 transcript ↗︎

strictly larger (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity

▶︎ 27:47 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 27:44 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎

strong double arrow (Joel David Hamkins)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 28:13 transcript ↗︎

strong induction

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 33:04 transcript ↗︎

subatomic particles (3)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 1:17 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True

▶︎ 0:00 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 10:17 transcript ↗︎

subgraph isomorphism (2)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 24:20 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 13:28 transcript ↗︎

subject and a predicate

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 9:35 transcript ↗︎

subjective

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 33:57 transcript ↗︎

substance

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

Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One

▶︎ 34:59 transcript ↗︎

successor relation

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 18:48 transcript ↗︎

Sudoku (4)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Intro: Computation and Its Limits

▶︎ 13:16 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems

▶︎ 35:28 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 1:54 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 0:22 transcript ↗︎

super box (David Albert)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 28:48 transcript ↗︎

Superposition (5)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof

▶︎ 1:05:23 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 29:13 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 13:23 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True

▶︎ 4:54 transcript ↗︎

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 41:05 transcript ↗︎

supertasks (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

▶︎ 0:11 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

▶︎ 3:58 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎

supremely perfect being

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science

▶︎ 18:18 transcript ↗︎

supremum

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 21:19 transcript ↗︎

surface of revolution

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 13:59 transcript ↗︎

surface tension

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 8:29 transcript ↗︎

surprising claim (Hume)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow

▶︎ 5:27 transcript ↗︎

Suslin, Mikhail

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 28:02 transcript ↗︎

Swift, Jonathan

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension

▶︎ 0:53 transcript ↗︎

syllogisms

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

Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea

▶︎ 36:30 transcript ↗︎

Symposium (dialogue)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 3:14 transcript ↗︎

synesthesia

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 7:44 transcript ↗︎

syntax-semantics dichotomy

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

▶︎ 8:14 transcript ↗︎

synthetic (2)

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 18:45 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality

▶︎ 1:46 transcript ↗︎

synthetic a priori

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 29:10 transcript ↗︎

synthetic empirical

Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 28:16 transcript ↗︎