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Robert Rowland Smith hosts

Lecturer, columnist, author of Breakfast with Socrates

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In Search of the Self

Colin Blakemore, Mary Midgley. Robert Rowland Smith hosts.

There is no self, no 'I', only a flickering illusion. So claim many neuroscientists and philosophers. Yet for the rest of us, the denial of the self feels like a bitter pill to swallow. Is the self a fantasy? Or is it essential to our being and consciousness?

The Dance of Life

Is experience all that we have?

Speakers: David Chalmers, Peter Hacker, Susana Martinez-Conde

The End of the Theory of Everything

Can we fully describe reality?

Speakers: Huw Price, John Ellis, Joanna Kavenna

The Immortal Now

Can philosophy teach us how to die?

Speakers: Havi Carel, Parashkev Nachev, Pen Hadow

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Post-Truth and Postmodernism

Is truth just a construct?

Speakers: Matthew D'Ancona, Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson

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The Strangeness of Things

Are things a necessary foundation of reality?

Speakers: Hilary Lawson, David Malone, John Ellis

The Limits of My World

Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?

Speakers: Hilary Lawson, Michael Potter, John Searle

Biography

Robert Rowland Smith began his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and now lectures at the London Graduate School and as a columnist for The Sunday Times. His books include Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life.