Robert Rowland Smith

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Robert Rowland Smith is a philospher and the award-winning author of Breakfast with Socrates and Driving with Plato. He spent the first part of his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the second as a partner in a leading firm of management consultants. He has written for The Independent, been profiled in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, contributed to books on philosophy for children, and broadcast for BBC Radio. Robert now divides his time between consulting, writing, and giving talks about the philosophy of life. He lives in London with his wife and has three daughters.

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Books by Robert Rowland Smith

Driving with Plato

The Meaning of Life's Milestones

By Robert Rowland Smith

“This book is elegant proof that philosophy doesn’t have to be fusty and musty” (A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically).

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Breakfast with Socrates

An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

By Robert Rowland Smith

What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.

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