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 broader social and cultural context. Language will be one focus, but we will also be looking at many other aspects of culture and at current global trends and how they are changing the world and shaping the future.
Gottlob Frege was a mathematician with strong philosophical interests and preoccupations. In an attempt to discover and make explicit the logical foundations of mathematics...
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...
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...