Robert Rowland Smith

Lecturer, columnist, author of Breakfast with Socrates

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.

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.

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Post-Truth and Postmodernism

Is truth just a construct?

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The Strangeness of Things

Are things a necessary foundation of reality?

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The Limits of My World

Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?

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The Story of Romance

Do we need a new narrative for love?

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Love, Life and Being Free

Do we need lifelong love to be happy?

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A Fairytale Romance

Do we need relationships to thrive?

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Thinking Differently

Language, gender and sexuality

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Desire, Dreams and Happiness

Can we ever arrive?

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Blinded by the Light

Metaphors of truth and reality

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Thinking the Unthinkable

The limits of thought

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The Edge of Reason

Beyond the limits of rationality

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Beyond Reality

What are the limits of our understanding?

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Beyond Truth and Falsehood

What is real?

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Paradise City

Can we build better metropoles?

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The Famine and the Feast

Why are we obsessed with food scarcity?

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Moral truths and moral tyrannies

Can we claim there exists a universal moral code?

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The good, the bad, and the ignored

The fantasy of agency

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The Rise and Fall of Sex

Is biological sex an illusion?