Lectures on Infinity
A series of lectures on infinity, with all my favorite paradoxes and conundrums.
A little while ago I spent some time in the Ergo studios in New York filming a series of lectures on infinity, and I am very pleased to say that they are now available.
These lectures are an exploration of all my favorite paradoxes and conundrums. We’ll get into Zeno’s paradox, supertasks, the paradox of giants, the paradox of the largest tweetable number, Galileo’s paradox, the dispute between potentialist and actualist conceptions of infinity, and much more. Eventually, we’ll dive into the details of Cantor’s discovery of uncountable infinity, the problem of the continuum hypothesis, and much more. Please enjoy!
The lectures are based on my new book, The Book of Infinity, MIT Press 2026.
I have been serializing the chapters here on Infinitely More as I wrote them—find them in the section The Book of Infinity.
The full lecture series is hosted at Ergo.org in the form of a lecture course Ergo: Lectures on Infinity, part of the broad collection of philosophy lecture courses they have assembled there. Highly recommended, and I am proud to be part of it.
The lectures will also appear on the Ergo YouTube channel, in collaboration with my YouTube channel.
I shall be releasing the videos here on Infinitely More over the coming weeks and months, with full transcripts—subscribe now for access to these and all my other Infinitely More content. I’ll be sending out the first lecture very soon: Zeno’s paradox and infinite sums.