Daniel N. Robinson is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Philosophy

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 at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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 and a Fellow

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 of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University.

Career

Robinson has authored more than seventeen books and edited over thirty volumes in a wide variety of subjects, including moral philosophy, the philosophy of psychology

Philosophy of psychology

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, legal philosophy, the philosophy of the mind, intellectual history

Intellectual history

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, legal history

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, and the history of psychology

History of psychology

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. He has held academic positions at Amherst College, Georgetown, Princeton and Columbia University. In addition, he served as the principal consultant to PBS and the BBC

BBC

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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 Wheatly Institute.In 2011 he received the Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association for significant contributions to the philosophical foundations of Psychology.

External links

Oxford University webpage
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/news__events/news/2011_gittler_award