Topic Index

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

Waits, Tom

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

Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep

▶︎ 34:31 transcript ↗︎

wave function (3)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 23:09 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 6:18 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 0:43 transcript ↗︎

wave-particle duality (2)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 37:59 transcript ↗︎

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

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

▶︎ 21:29 transcript ↗︎

wax block (Theaetetus) (2)

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 0:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 31:33 transcript ↗︎

wax block model (Theaetetus) (2)

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 31:33 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 4:21 transcript ↗︎

wax tablet

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 33:17 transcript ↗︎

Wearing, Clive (amnesia patient)

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

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 32:43 transcript ↗︎

well order (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

▶︎ 14:07 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 45:28 transcript ↗︎

What Is Real (book)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 1:06:40 transcript ↗︎

white electron (David Albert) (3)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 10:24 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality

▶︎ 2:46 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 9:36 transcript ↗︎

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 20:13 transcript ↗︎

Wigderson, Avi (computer scientist)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In

▶︎ 35:32 transcript ↗︎

Wigner, Eugene (3)

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Intro: The Crisis In Physics

▶︎ 9:53 transcript ↗︎

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

▶︎ 28:46 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 0:12 transcript ↗︎

Wiles, Andrew (mathematician)

Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond

▶︎ 18:14 transcript ↗︎

will and intellect are one and the same

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

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

▶︎ 16:11 transcript ↗︎

wind egg (Socrates) (2)

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

Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?

▶︎ 34:55 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge

▶︎ 36:00 transcript ↗︎

windy path (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open

▶︎ 24:49 transcript ↗︎

Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

▶︎ 13:20 transcript ↗︎

winning strategy

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 35:19 transcript ↗︎

Wittgensteinian

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

Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?

▶︎ 17:10 transcript ↗︎

wooden horses (Theaetetus)

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

Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?

▶︎ 4:14 transcript ↗︎

Woolf, Virginia

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense

▶︎ 4:43 transcript ↗︎

world splits

David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism

Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality

▶︎ 43:32 transcript ↗︎