Daniel N. Robinson
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| Born | March 9, 1937 |
| Residence | Middletown, Maryland, America |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields |
Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Psychology Philosophy of Law History of Psychology |
| Institutions |
University of Oxford Georgetown University |
| Alma mater |
B.A. Colgate University Ph.D. City University of New York (Neuropsychology) |
| Notable awards | Lifetime Achievement Award (American Psychological Association, Division of the History of Psychology)
Distinguished Contribution Award (American Psychological Association, Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology),Distinguished Alumni Award (2009), Graduate Center, City Univ. New York <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/Commencements/Detail?id=5442> Joseph Gittler Award (American Psychological Association |
Daniel N. Robinson (born March 9, 1937) is a philosopher who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University.
Robinson has published in a wide variety of subjects, including moral philosophy, the philosophy of psychology, legal philosophy, the philosophy of the mind, intellectual history, legal history, and the history of psychology. He has held academic positions at Amherst College, Georgetown University, Princeton University, and Columbia University. In addition, he served as the principal consultant to PBS and the BBC for their award-winning series "The Brain" and "The Mind". He is on the Board of Consulting Scholars of Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and is a Senior Fellow of BYU's Wheatley Institution. In 2011 he received the Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association for significant contributions to the philosophical foundations of Psychology. "
Robinson’s interests range over the brain sciences, philosophy, law and intellectual history. Several of his works are illustrative of these interests. Regarded as a classic in its field, his An Intellectual History of Psychology was praised by Ernest Hilgard for its “…development of ideas as they provide alternative perspectives on the nature of mind…The reader is carried along on a genuine intellectual adventure." Robinson’s enduring interest in Aristotle’s thought is summarized in Aristotle’s Psychology, which Deborah Modrak described as “Easy to read and informative” predicting that it would “no doubt prompt readers to reflect on the relevance of Aristotle’s work to modern psychology…” (International Studies in Philosophy, Volume 23, Issue 3, 1991; pp. 142–143). In this connection, Robinson was among the small group assembled by Martin Seligman in 1999 to develop the framework for Positive Psychology.
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