Angie Hobbs is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Warwick University and created the UK’s first Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy in 2009. Her most recent work has been a new translation of and commentary on Plato’s Symposium (for Oxford University Press) and a book on heroism, courage and fame.

Robert Rowland Smith was for seven years a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where his work on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis was described by Jacques Derrida as ‘superbe’. He now advises blue-chip companies and government departments, teaches at London’s School of Life, and writes, among other things, a column on ‘life lessons’ in the Evening Standard and a regular column in the Sunday Times. He contributes to the Philosophy Bites podcast series and speaks regularly on BBC radio. His first book, Breakfast with Socrates has been translated into sixteen languages. The follow-up is Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life’s Milestones. www.robertrowlandsmith.com

Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer at the Open University and bestselling author of several popular introductory Philosophy books including Philosophy: The Basics, Thinking from A to Z, Philosophy: The Classics, Philosophy: Basic Readings, Freedom: An Introduction with Readings, and The Art Question. He is an Honorary Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He can be found blogging, podcasting and twittering via his popular philosophy blog, Virtual Philosopher.