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
S4.3 (modal logic)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Sacks, Oliver
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
sadness
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
salvation (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Salviati (Galileo character)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
sanctity of life
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Sartre, Jean-Paul (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
satisfiability
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Schiller, Friedrich
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
scholē
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
scholia (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
scholium
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Schröder, Ernst
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Schrodinger equation (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Schrödinger, Erwin (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
scientific notation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
scientific project (4)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
scientific realism (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
scientific revolution (8)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
sealing wax
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
second analogy (Kant) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
second critique (Kant) (3)
second meditation (Descartes)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
second order assertion
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
second order logic
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
second version of the categorical imperative
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
secondary qualities
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
secret doctrine (Theaetetus)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
secrets of LLM performance (Tim Roughgarden)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
self as activity
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
self-conceit (Kant) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
self-determining (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
self-evident (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
self-legislation (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
self-love (4)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
self-referentiality
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
self-refutation argument
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
self-similar fractal
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
sensation
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
sense of self (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
sensibility (4)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
sensory deception (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
sensory experience (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
separation of church and state
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
set theoretic pluralism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
set theory (7)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
seventh letter (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper (philosopher)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper (philosopher)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
shocking claim (Hume)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
shopkeeper (Kant example)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Shor, Peter
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
shortest distance between two points is a straight line (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
shortest path (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
shortest path problem (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
SIGACT News (newsletter)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
simplex method (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Simplicio (Galileo character)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
simulation (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Singer, Peter
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
single-cell amoeba
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
single-celled being
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
singular representation (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
six dice (thought experiment)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
skeptical arguments (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Skeptical School
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
skepticism (3)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Skinner, B.F.
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Skolem paradox
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
slavery (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
slippery slope
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
small forcing extensions
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
snub-nosed (Socrates)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Socrates (13)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Socrates' questioning (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Socratic dialogue (5)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Socratic fallacy
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Socratic form
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Socratic irony (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Socratic wisdom
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
source of knowledge
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
space
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Spacetime Curvature
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
special metaphysics
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
special theory of relativity
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
specieism
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
speed limit (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Spinozist
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
spontaneity
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
St. Anselm
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
stages of knowledge (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Stahl, Georg Ernst (chemist)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
start from scratch (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
state of nature
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
statistical correlations
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
step function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Stephanus numbers
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
stepwise successions
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
STOC (conference)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
stochastic (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
stock rotation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Stoeckl finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Stoics
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
straightedge and compass
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Strassen's algorithm
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
strictly larger (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
strong double arrow (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
strong induction
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
subatomic particles (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
subgraph isomorphism (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
subject and a predicate
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
subjective (3)
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
subjective principle of taste (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
substance
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
substance-accident
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
substantive knowledge (4)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
successor relation
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Sudoku (4)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
super box (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Superposition (5)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
supersensible
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
supersensible things in themselves
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
supertasks (3)
supremely perfect being
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
supremum
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
surface of revolution
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
surface tension
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
surprising claim (Hume)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Suslin, Mikhail
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Swift, Jonathan
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
syllogisms
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
symbolism
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Symposium (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
synesthesia
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
syntax-semantics dichotomy
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
synthesis
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
synthesize
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
synthetic (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
synthetic a priori (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
synthetic a priori knowledge (3)
synthetic empirical (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
synthetic judgment (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
system of ends (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions