HPS 0628 Paradox Fall 2021

Video
Fall 2021

Norton speaking

All Chapters

The main links below are to MP4 videos. There are also legacy links to Panopto videos, which include automatically generated transcripts.
Since Pitt's arrangments with Panopto are in flux, I do not know how long they will remain live.

Week
Class meeting
Topic
Video
1
Tues. Aug. 31
Zoom
Prolog, A Budget of Paradoxes
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Thurs. Sep. 2
Zoom
Paradoxes: Their Diagnosis, Treatment and Cure, The Logic of Arguments
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2
Tues. Sep. 7
Zoom
Paradoxes: Their Diagnosis, Treatment and Cure, The Logic of Arguments

Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion
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Thurs. Sep. 9
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Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion TV icon

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3
Tues. Sep. 14
Supertasks


Thurs. Sep. 16
Reversed Supertasks

4
Tues. Sep. 21
Mechanical Supertasks


Thurs. Sep. 23
Mechanical Supertasks
5
Tues. Sep. 28
Paradoxes of the Infinitely Large


Thurs. Sep. 30
Infinite Sets

6
Tues. Oct. 5
Infinite Sets

Thurs. Oct. 7
Infinite Sets/Paradoxes of Measure
7
Tues. Oct 12
Paradoxes of Measure

Thurs. Oct. 14
Additive Measures
8
Tues. Oct. 19
The Liar

Thurs. Oct. 21
The Liar
9
Tues. Oct. 26
The Paradoxes of Naive Set Theory

Thurs. Oct. 28
The Paradoxes of Naive Set Theory
10
Tues. Nov. 2
Paradoxes of Impossibility: Incommensurability

Thurs. Nov. 4
Paradoxes of Impossibility: Classic Geometric Constructions (treated briefly)
11
Tues. Nov. 9
Paradoxes of Impossibility: Computation
(Background: Algorithmic complexity)


Thurs. Nov. 11
PSA, Baltimore
Paradoxes of Impossibility: Computation

12
Tues. Nov. 16
Probability Theory Refresher
Paradoxes From Probability Theory


Thurs. Nov. 18
Paradoxes From Probability Theory

Thanksgiving recess, Nov. 22-26


13
Tues. Nov. 30
Problems for Probability: the Principle of Indifference


Thurs. Dec. 2
Problems for Probability: the Principle of Indifference
Paradoxes For Probability: Expectations

14
Tues. Dec. 7
Paradoxes For Probability: Expectations

Thurs. Dec. 9
The Infinite Lottery: the Chances
How to Build An Infinite Lottery Machine


Fri. Dec. 10, Last day undergraduate classes


Mon. Dec. 13