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Varieties of Nationalism
Patriotism comes in many shapes and sizes. It remains a key factor in politics and international relations. In this episode, Mark English continues his...
Nationalism
Gottlob Frege's organicism and his (surprisingly strong) patriotic commitments were mentioned in a previous episode of Culture and Value. In this episode, Mark English...
Frege's View of the World
Gottlob Frege was a mathematician with strong philosophical interests and preoccupations. In an attempt to discover and make explicit the logical foundations of mathematics...
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Individualism and Cultural Embeddedness
Mark English talks about his general goal of presenting and defending a form of individualism which takes seriously our cultural embeddedness, noting that universal...
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Close Reading
Young children are notoriously bad liars, but even mature and sophisticated users of language reveal themselves in ways of which they are all too...
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Politics and personal values; Taiwan and U.S. interventionism
Personal and political values can be intertwined in complicated ways and, even within close families, there are often serious, politically-driven divides. Mark English talks...