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

canary in a coal mine
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 2:05 transcript ↗︎
Cantor Bendixson derivative
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 21:40 transcript ↗︎
Cantor Bendixson process
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 21:30 transcript ↗︎
Cantor Hume Principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 2:29 transcript ↗︎
Cantor pairing function
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 30:51 transcript ↗︎
Cantor Schon principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 2:28 transcript ↗︎
Cantor space (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 52:18 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 4:16 transcript ↗︎
Cantor–Schröder–Bernstein theorem (3)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:02:40 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 10:09 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 31:34 transcript ↗︎
Cantor, Georg (7)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
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Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 57:27 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 3:39 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:35 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 0:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 26:12 transcript ↗︎
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 36:19 transcript ↗︎
Cantor's cruise ship (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 50:31 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 1:43 transcript ↗︎
Cartesian cogito
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 18:38 transcript ↗︎
Cartesian coordinates (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 27:02 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
▶︎ 35:39 transcript ↗︎
Cartesian dualism
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 40:30 transcript ↗︎
Cartesian product
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 38:00 transcript ↗︎
categorical (logic)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 23:46 transcript ↗︎
categorical imperative (4)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 4:47 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 32:52 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
▶︎ 17:14 transcript ↗︎
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 7:03 transcript ↗︎
categories
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 17:49 transcript ↗︎
category mistake (3)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
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Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 27:15 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 8:44 transcript ↗︎
causa sui
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 20:30 transcript ↗︎
causality (6)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 4:32 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 7:21 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 22:16 transcript ↗︎
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 4:53 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 21:15 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 18:09 transcript ↗︎
cause and effect (5)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 2:08 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 7:19 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
▶︎ 23:23 transcript ↗︎
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 2: Can Every Perception Be True?
▶︎ 41:56 transcript ↗︎
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 7:19 transcript ↗︎
centillion
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 1:13 transcript ↗︎
cerebral cortex
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life
▶︎ 45:25 transcript ↗︎
certainty (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 26:02 transcript ↗︎
chain of goals
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
▶︎ 13:51 transcript ↗︎
character (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Intro: Are You a Good Person?
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Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 2:46 transcript ↗︎
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎
character ethics (2)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 7: Aristotle on Living Your Best Life
▶︎ 50:15 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 2:36 transcript ↗︎
characteristic sequence
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
▶︎ 59:31 transcript ↗︎
Charcot, Jean-Martin (neurologist)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 28:03 transcript ↗︎
Charged Particles
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 26:19 transcript ↗︎
childhood upbringing
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 11:42 transcript ↗︎
chocolatier (Joel David Hamkins game)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 30:42 transcript ↗︎
chocolatier's game (Joel David Hamkins)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 30:20 transcript ↗︎
Church-Turing thesis (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
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Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 26:41 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 32:08 transcript ↗︎
Church, Alonzo
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 53:22 transcript ↗︎
cinnamon smell study
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
▶︎ 39:07 transcript ↗︎
circle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
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clay (Socrates)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 20:52 transcript ↗︎
Clay Institute (mathematics)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 6:42 transcript ↗︎
clear and distinct perception (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern Science
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Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 25:32 transcript ↗︎
Clifford the big red dog
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 23:22 transcript ↗︎
closed sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 1:43 transcript ↗︎
closure properties
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 17:40 transcript ↗︎
Cobham-Edmonds thesis (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 30:51 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 17:21 transcript ↗︎
Cobham, Alan (computer scientist) (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 16:43 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 17:21 transcript ↗︎
cogito
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 3:17 transcript ↗︎
Cogito ergo sum (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 34:58 transcript ↗︎
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 3:01 transcript ↗︎
Cohen, Paul (mathematician)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 34:48 transcript ↗︎
Coleman, Sidney (physicist)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 47:01 transcript ↗︎
collapse
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 13:55 transcript ↗︎
collapse of the wave function
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 3:40 transcript ↗︎
color
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 2:04 transcript ↗︎
color box (David Albert)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 5:09 transcript ↗︎
color measurements (David Albert) (2)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
▶︎ 1:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 1: The Experiment That Broke Reality
▶︎ 31:44 transcript ↗︎
commensurable
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
▶︎ 24:38 transcript ↗︎
common concepts (Plato)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
▶︎ 9:56 transcript ↗︎
common induction
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 32:23 transcript ↗︎
common properties (Spinoza) (3)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
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Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 31:31 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
▶︎ 9:21 transcript ↗︎
comparative size principle
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 6: Galileo's Paradox of Infinity
▶︎ 26:17 transcript ↗︎
complementarity
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 18:44 transcript ↗︎
complete (logic)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 7:22 transcript ↗︎
completeness (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 27:12 transcript ↗︎
complexity theorists (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 7:44 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 13:28 transcript ↗︎
computable real numbers
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 30:10 transcript ↗︎
computably undecidable
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number
▶︎ 43:33 transcript ↗︎
computation
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Entire course
▶︎ watch chapters ↗︎
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 0:02 transcript ↗︎
computation and its limits (2)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 49:43 transcript ↗︎
Computation transcends technology (Tim Roughgarden)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 1:03:55 transcript ↗︎
computational complexity
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 3:52 transcript ↗︎
computer science's fight for recognition
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 10:49 transcript ↗︎
conatus (Spinoza) (2)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 42:10 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
concepts
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 22:06 transcript ↗︎
concepts of the understanding (Kant) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
▶︎ 24:49 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
▶︎ 45:09 transcript ↗︎
conceptual framework
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 9:27 transcript ↗︎
conceptual lens
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 1: Descartes Reboots Everything
▶︎ 6:50 transcript ↗︎
condemned to be free (Sartre)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 9: Sartre's Terrifying Gift of Freedom
▶︎ 19:49 transcript ↗︎
conditional value
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 31:22 transcript ↗︎
conditionally convergent
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 35:35 transcript ↗︎
conditionals
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity
▶︎ 1:25 transcript ↗︎
Confederate money
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 18:02 transcript ↗︎
configuration space
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
▶︎ 1:10:55 transcript ↗︎
conflicting duties
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 4: Can You Measure Happiness?
▶︎ 4:43 transcript ↗︎
confused ideas (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 28:57 transcript ↗︎
conscious deliberation
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 7:34 transcript ↗︎
consciousness
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 3: Two Laws That Can't Both Be True
▶︎ 29:06 transcript ↗︎
consequences (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 4: Can You Measure Happiness?
▶︎ 1:25 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
▶︎ 0:23 transcript ↗︎
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 6:52 transcript ↗︎
consequent conjunctions (Lee Braver)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 32:16 transcript ↗︎
consequentialism (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 4: Can You Measure Happiness?
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Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
▶︎ 24:46 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 18:50 transcript ↗︎
Conservation of Energy
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 34:43 transcript ↗︎
Conservation of Momentum
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
▶︎ 34:43 transcript ↗︎
constant conjunction (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
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Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 8:03 transcript ↗︎
constitutive (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 6: How Your Mind Builds Reality
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constructible universe
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 31:32 transcript ↗︎
contentment
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
▶︎ 40:55 transcript ↗︎
contingent (6)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 32:24 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
▶︎ 3:01 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 26:12 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 35:15 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
▶︎ 6:40 transcript ↗︎
Recap: How Should You Live? The Great Answers
▶︎ 6:32 transcript ↗︎
continuous functions
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 15:47 transcript ↗︎
continuum hypothesis
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 0:01 transcript ↗︎
contra Bible (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
▶︎ 12:56 transcript ↗︎
contradiction (4)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
▶︎ 26:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 20:22 transcript ↗︎
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
▶︎ 5:28 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 6: Kant's One Rule for Right and Wrong
▶︎ 27:58 transcript ↗︎
contrapositive
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 1: Is There Anything Computers Can't Do?
▶︎ 45:05 transcript ↗︎
converge
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums
▶︎ 22:08 transcript ↗︎
convergent form of potentialism
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity
▶︎ 49:20 transcript ↗︎
Cook-Levin theorem (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 54:12 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 5: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond
▶︎ 11:32 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
▶︎ 18:09 transcript ↗︎
Cook, Stephen (computer scientist) (3)
Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Lecture 4: Two Worlds We Might Live In
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Intro: Computation and Its Limits
▶︎ 8:04 transcript ↗︎
Lecture 3: Easy Problems, Hard Problems
▶︎ 55:31 transcript ↗︎
Copenhagen (interpretation)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Intro: The Crisis In Physics
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 7: Nietzsche's Warning to the Future
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corollary
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 2: The Mind Is the Body's Idea
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correspondence (truth theory)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
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corrupting the youth (3)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 1: Socrates Made Athens Question Everything
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 1: Is Knowledge Just Perception?
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Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 37:10 transcript ↗︎
Coulomb Force
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof
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countable
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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countable choice (2)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
▶︎ 36:42 transcript ↗︎
countable infinity (6)
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity
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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
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Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell
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Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
▶︎ 47:02 transcript ↗︎
countable union of countable sets
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 8: Hilbert's Hotel Is Always Open
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countably additive
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
▶︎ 29:29 transcript ↗︎
countably creative
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things
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countably infinite subset
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?
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counter-example (4)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 3: Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
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Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
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Lecture 5: A Lucky Guess Isn't Knowledge
▶︎ 9:21 transcript ↗︎
cowardly
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 8: Your Character Is Your Destiny
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Cratylus (dialogue)
Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
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creating new gods (Socrates charge)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 1: Socrates Made Athens Question Everything
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creativity
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
▶︎ 7:27 transcript ↗︎
crisis of representation
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 2: When Physics Stops Making Sense
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critical philosophy (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
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critical thinking
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 2: Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
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critique (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 3: Hume's Map of the Mind
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Critique of Pure Reason (book) (2)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge
Lecture 4: How Is False Judgment Possible?
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Crop, Henri (Spinoza scholar)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 4: Love as an Expansion of Self
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cross-sectional area
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 3: The Paradox of Giants: Strange Consequences in High Dimension
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crossroads (Kant)
Lee Braver · From Socrates to Sartre: How Should We Live?
Lecture 5: Kant: Right and Wrong Aren't Just Opinions
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cubists (quantum Bayesians)
David Albert · Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism
Lecture 5: Three Ways to Save Reality
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cumulative hierarchy
Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity
Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery
▶︎ 39:40 transcript ↗︎
Curley translation (Spinoza)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 1: Why God and Nature Are One
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Curley, Edwin (Spinoza translator)
Noa Lahav Ayalon · Introduction to Spinoza and His Theory of Love
Lecture 3: Joy, Sadness, and the Power to Act
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custom or habit (Hume) (3)
Lee Braver · From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God
Lecture 4: Why You Can't Prove Tomorrow
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Lecture 5: Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep
▶︎ 8:45 transcript ↗︎
Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own
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