Publications
The Philosophy Resistance Squad
‘This book is a curious, exciting marvel... an adventure that asks the hard questions and fights the good fight; bold, brave, unusual and really makes you think!’
– Mary Esther Judy, Fallen Stories
‘A dramatic adventure, with an engaging helping of philosophy on the side.’
– Sara Keating, The Irish Times
‘To be able to gift your child a basic grounding in philosophy for less than a tenner is, I have to say in distinctly non-Socratic terms, mindblowing.
– Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle
Rob Grant, author of The Philosophy Resistance Squad, in conversation with Senator Lynn Ruane
Curiosity Stifled - A Case For Philosophy In Schools
Television documentary, written, presented and directed by Dr. Robert Grant, aired on RTE 1, 2019, produced by Alan Gilsenan and Martin Mahon of Yellow Asylum Films.
Featuring: President Michael D. Higgins, Lenny Abrahamson, Prof Luke O ‘Neill, Dr. Austin O’Carroll, students from Temple Carraig School and Balbriggan Educate Together.
This documentary examines our economic focused-education and makes a case for why we need to teach philosophy in schools.
World Philosophy Day in Áras an Uachtarán
Dr. Robert Grant speaking on World Philosophy Day about expanding our sense of historical continuity, and beginning with education.
Enquiring Minds Radio Documentary
Enquring Minds, is a radio documentary based on an art and philosophy project with 10 year old children from 4th Class of the Central Model Senior School on Gardiner street in Dublin's inner city.
Requiem for the Truth
(Dublin Fringe, 2018; Bergen, Norway, 2019; Cork Jazz, 2019)
A musical-theatre show combining brass music, New Orleans and Irish-Catholic funeral traditions, and philosophical texts of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein to celebrate the death of truth in contemporary culture.