Mar 17 2022 • 00:08:47
Gottlob Frege's organicism and his (surprisingly strong) patriotic commitments were mentioned in a previous episode of Culture and Value. In this epis...
Feb 19 2022 • 00:13:30
Gottlob Frege was a mathematician with strong philosophical interests and preoccupations. In an attempt to discover and make explicit the logical foun...
Jan 20 2022 • 00:07:24
Mark English talks about his general goal of presenting and defending a form of individualism which takes seriously our cultural embeddedness, noting ...
Dec 20 2021 • 00:08:25
Young children are notoriously bad liars, but even mature and sophisticated users of language reveal themselves in ways of which they are all too ofte...
Dec 04 2021 • 00:15:50
Personal and political values can be intertwined in complicated ways and, even within close families, there are often serious, politically-driven divi...
Nov 25 2021 • 00:12:51
Great powers in decline are often more dangerous than rising powers. The leaders of such countries (today's United States?) may be tempted to take dra...
Sep 28 2021 • 00:13:40
Mark English recounts some details of the life, character, beliefs and attitudes of a remarkable woman. Her father was a Chinese general and a colleag...
Sep 15 2021 • 00:04:18
Mark English introduces himself and explains what he has in mind for the podcast. The general idea is to explore personal values, relating them to the...