Topic Index
Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.
T schema
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Ta Meta ta Physika
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Tableaux Parisiens (Baudelaire)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
tabula rasa (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
tactic
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
target (Aristotle metaphor)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
target set
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Tarski finite
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Tarski, Alfred
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Tarski's theorem on the non-definability of truth
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Ted Baker, John Gill, and Robert Solovay (complexity theorists)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Ted Sider
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
teleological (4)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
teletransportation (2)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
telos (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
template of who we are (Marya Schechtman)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
temporally conditioned
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
tenacity (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (novel)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
tetration
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
textual functions
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Thales
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Thanksgiving turkey
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the Academy (Plato) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the Alps
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the animal that has no limits (Nietzsche)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
The Apology (dialogue) (6)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
The Berlin Childhood (book) (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the Bible
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the boat and the house (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the book of nature is written in the language of math
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the butterfly hunt (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the call is coming from inside the house (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
The Clouds
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the collector (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism (dissertation)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the concept of the immature (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the Copernican revolution (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the detective (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Emergent Multiverse (book)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
the ends justify the means
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
the enlightenment
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the essay on language (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the eternal return (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the Fall (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the feeling of respect (Kant) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the figure of the assistant (Kafka)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the flaneur (2)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the flood (Bible)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the friend is another self (Aristotle)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
the function argument (Aristotle) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
the future will resemble the past
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
The Human Animal (book)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
the inflation (Weimar Germany)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Joker
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
the light of the pure language (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the little present (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the logic of stories and the logic of lives (Lamarque)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
the madman (Nietzsche)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the man who can change the appearances for the better (Protagoras)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the matrix (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
The Meditations (Descartes) (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
the Meno (dialogue) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (book) (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
The Metaphysics of Morals (book)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the mind is the idea of the body (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
the monad
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Moon (Benjamin passage)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Moral Worldview (Hegel)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the most controversial equation in middle school (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
the murderer at the door (thought experiment)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the mythical (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The New Hume
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the otter (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the outmoded (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the penny
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
The Phantom Tollbooth (novel)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
the political moment of the historical investigation of the past (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the problem of personal identity
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
The Republic (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the search is the most pious thing (Euthyphro)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
The Sock (Benjamin passage)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the Sophist (3)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the soul
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the Statesman (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the statue and the lump of clay
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
the story of your life isn't your life, it's your story
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
The Storyteller (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the sublime (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the surrealists
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
The Table of Nothing (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
The Task of the Translator (essay) (3)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the true, the good, and the beautiful
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
the turkey (Russell)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
the unconditioned (Kant) (3)
the unexamined life is not worth living
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
the verb to be must be totally abolished
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
the will (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
The Will to Power
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (essay) (3)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the world in itself
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
The World of Children's Books (essay)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
the world taken as a whole
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Theaetetus (4)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Theodorus (4)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
theological political treatise (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
theoretic virtues
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
theoretical reason (2)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
theory of becoming
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
theory of color (Goethe)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
theory of knowledge (8)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Theory of Life (Mill) (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
theory of the forms
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
thermodynamically irreversible
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
things for us (Kant) (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?
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
things in themselves (7)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
think for yourself
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
thinking thing (4)
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
third antinomy (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
third critique (Kant) (4)
third norm of assertion
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Thomas Hobbes
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Thomas Jefferson
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
Thompson's Lamp (thought experiment)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
thought and extension (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Thracian servant girl (Thales anecdote)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Thrasymachus
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
three boxes in a row
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
three bullet-proof beliefs
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
three kinds of knowledge (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
threefold rhythm
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
thrown into this world (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
thumos
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
time
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
time dilation
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
timeless choice (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
to be is to be perceived
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
too many thinkers (Olson)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
torture
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
total of nothing box (David Albert) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Tower of Babel
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
trace
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
tracking
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
tradition
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
traditional answers
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
tragedy
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
training (machine learning)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
transcendent God
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
transcendent metaphysics
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
transcendental deduction
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
transcendental dialectic
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
transcendental idealism (4)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
transcendental illusion (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
transcendental numbers (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
transcendental questions
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
transitive
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
translatability (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
translation
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
transparent white (Wittgenstein)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
Trauerspiel (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
traveling salesman problem (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
traveling salesperson problem (5)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (book)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
tree of knowledge
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
triangle (Descartes example)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
triangular number
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
tripartite division of the soul
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
triplets (thought experiment)
Marya Schechtman · Personal Identity and Narrative
Tristan da Cunha (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
trivial inferences (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
trivial supertask
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
tropes (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
true autonomy
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
true judgment (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
true judgment plus an account (2)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
truth (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
truth is a norm of belief
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
truth rule
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
truth talk (3)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
truthmaker theory (2)
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
truthmakers
Amie L. Thomasson · Making Metaphysics Functional
TSP
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
TTP (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Turing Award
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Turing machine (7)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Turing test
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Turing-complete
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Turing, Alan (5)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
turn to the secondary (Benjamin)
Eli Friedlander · Walter Benjamin: Language, Memory, History
TV screen problem (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
two and two equals four (4)
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?
two paths experiments (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
types of assertion (Kant)
Reed Winegar · Kant’s Three Questions