Daniel N. Robinson ( born Daniel 9 Robinson , March 9, 1937 - September 17, 2018 ) is an American philosopher, Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a member of the (Fello) Department of Philosophy at Oxford University .
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| Date of Birth | March 9, 1937 |
| Date of death | September 17, 2018 ( 81) |
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Career
Robinson's publications concerned various branches of philosophy, in particular ethics , philosophy of psychology, philosophy of jurisprudence , philosophy of consciousness , intellectual history , history of state and law , history of psychology. He has held academic positions at Amherst College, Georgetown University, Princeton and Columbia Universities. In addition, he served as chief consultant to PBS and the BBC for their award-winning Brain and Mind series. In 2011, he received the Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association for his significant contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychology.
Bibliography
- "The Enlightened Machine: An Analytical Introduction to Neuropsychology." Columbia University Press, New York (1980).
- "An Intellectual History of Psychology." Macmillan, New York (1976). [Edition in Spanish]
- "Systems of Modern Psychology: A Critical Sketch." Columbia University Press, New York (1979).
- "Psychology and Law: Justice Can Survive the Social Sciences?" Oxford University Press, New York (1980).
- "Toward a Science of Human Nature: Essays on the Psychologies of Hegel, Mill, Wundt and James." Columbia University Press, New York (1982).
- "The Wonder of Being Human: Our Mind and Our Brain." Free Press, New York (1984); written with Sir John Eccles .
- "Philosophy of Psychology". Columbia University Press, New York (1985).
- "Aristotle's Psychology". Columbia University Press, New York (1989)
- "An Intellectual History of Psychology." Third Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995; London: Arnold Publishing, 1995.
- "Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present." Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
- "The Mind: An Oxford Reader." Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.
- "Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- "Consciousness and Mental Life". New York: Columbia University Press, 2008
- "How is Possible Nature? Kant's Project in the First Critique." London: Continuum, 2012