Robert Rowland Smith is a consultant, writer and lecturer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis.

Robert 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 now divides his time between writing, teaching and consulting independently.

Robert writes non-fiction that applies philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature to the concerns of everyday life. His book Breakfast with Socrates: the Philosophy of Everyday Life is published this year by Profile Books, and will appear in 2010 in translation around the world. 

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