Patriotism comes in many shapes and sizes. It remains a key factor in politics and international relations. In this episode, Mark English continues hi...
Nationalism
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...
Frege's View of the World
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...
Individualism and Cultural Embeddedness
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 ...
Close Reading
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...
Politics and personal values; Taiwan and U.S. interventionism
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...
The Curious Persistence of Cold War Thinking
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...
Chinese General's Daughter
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...
Culture and Value: Introductory Episode
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...
