Robert C. Solomon (1942 - 2007) was an American professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for more than thirty years. He authored and edited more than forty-five books, including The Passions, About Love, Ethics and Excellence, A Short History of Philosophy with Professor Kathleen Higgins, A Better Way to Think about Business, The Joy of Philosophy, Spirituality for the Skeptic, Not Passion's Slave, and In Defense of Sentimentality. He also wrote about business ethics in Above the Bottom Line, It's Good Business, Ethics and Excellence, New World of Business and A Better Way to Think about Business.