IPS

Professor and Senior Scholar*
Ph.D., City University of New York
M.A., Hofstra University
B.A., Colgate University

Dr. Robinson is a Senior Scholar at IPS. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a member of the philosophy faculty of Oxford University. Prof. 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, legal philosophy, the philosophy of the mind, intellectual history, legal history, and the history of psychology. Among his works are An Intellectual History of Psychology (Wisconsin, 1995), Wild Beasts & Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present (Harvard, 1996), and Praise And Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications (Princeton, 2002).

Prof. Robinson earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in Neuropsychology. He has previously held academic positions at Amherst College,Princeton University's Department of Psychology, and Columbia University, where he served as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology. 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 the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, New Jersey.

Robinson is the past president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association, the Division of the History of Psychology and the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. In 2001, Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

* Senior Scholar is a designation used by the Institute to acknowledge individuals who have made significant contributions to their field, and who serve as mentors for more junior members of the faculty.

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