Background
Robinson, Daniel N. was born on March 9, 1937 in New York, United States. Son of Henry S. and Margaret Robinson.
( An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a c...)
An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics. Daniel N. Robinson demonstrates that from the dawn of rigorous and self-critical inquiry in ancient Greece, reflections about human nature have been inextricably linked to the cultures from which they arose, and each definable historical age has added its own character and tone to this long tradition. An Intellectual History of Psychology not only explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, but also examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Robinson treats each epoch, whether ancient Greece or Renaissance Florence or Enlightenment France, in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers. Robinson also explores the abiding tension between humanistic and scientific perspectives, assessing the most convincing positions on each side of the debate. Invaluable as a text for students and as a stimulating and insightful overview for scholars and practicing psychologists, this volume can be read either as a history of psychology in both its philosophical and aspiring scientific periods or as a concise history of Western philosophy’s concepts of human nature.
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(An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic ...)
An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics. Daniel N. Robinson demonstrates that from the dawn of rigorous and self-critical inquiry in ancient Greece, reflections about human nature have been inextricably linked to the cultures from which they arose, and each definable historical age has added its own character and tone to this long tradition. An Intellectual History of Psychology not only explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, but also examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Robinson treats each epoch, whether ancient Greece or Renaissance Florence or Enlightenment France, in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers. Robinson also explores the abiding tension between humanistic and scientific perspectives, assessing the most convincing positions on each side of the debate. Invaluable as a text for students and as a stimulating and insightful overview for scholars and practicing psychologists, this volume can be read either as a history of psychology in both its philosophical and aspiring scientific periods or as a concise history of Western philosophy's concepts of human nature.
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( In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of ...)
In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "brain science," "cognitive science," and "cognitive neuroscience." Scholars have heralded this development as revolutionary, but a revolution implies an existing method has been overturned in favor of something new. What long-held theories have been abandoned or significantly modified in light of cognitive neuroscience? Consciousness and Mental Life questions our present approach to the study of consciousness and the way modern discoveries either mirror or contradict understandings reached in the centuries leading up to our own. Daniel N. Robinson does not wage an attack on the emerging discipline of cognitive science. Rather, he provides the necessary historical context to properly evaluate the relationship between issues of consciousness and neuroscience and their evolution over time. Robinson begins with Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and continues through to René Descartes, David Hume, William James, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Derek Parfit. Approaching the issue from both a philosophical and a psychological perspective, Robinson identifies what makes the study of consciousness so problematic and asks whether cognitive neuroscience can truly reveal the origins of mental events, emotions, and preference, or if these occurrences are better understood by studying the whole person, not just the brain. Well-reasoned and thoroughly argued, Consciousness and Mental Life corrects many claims made about the success of brain science and provides a valuable historical context for the study of human consciousness.
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(Robinson unfolds the vision of four influential writers o...)
Robinson unfolds the vision of four influential writers on psychology---J.S. Mill, F. Hegel, Wilhelm Wundt, and William James---who considered the world, its persons and problems, its possibilities and conflicts, its scientific facts and its moral ambiguities, and proceeded to devise a means by which to improve it. Robinson shows how in thinking about psychology, these individuals provided an intellectual context within which the discipline could be refined.
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psychology and philosophy professor
Robinson, Daniel N. was born on March 9, 1937 in New York, United States. Son of Henry S. and Margaret Robinson.
Bachelor, Colgate University, 1958. Master of Arts, Hofstra University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, City University of New York, 1965.
Research psychologist, electronics research laboratories Columbia University, 1960-1965, assistant director science honors program, 1964-1968, senior research psychologist, electronics research laboratories, 1965-1968, assistant director of life science electronics research laboratories, 1967-1968. Assistant professor department psychology Amherst College, 1968-1970, associate professor, 1970-1971. Director graduate program department psychology Georgetown University, 1981-1983, chairman department psychology, 1973-1976, 85-91, associate professor, 1971-1974, professor, since 1974, adjunct professor philosophy Washington, 1996—1997, distinguished research professor and professor psychology, 1998—2001, distinguished professor emeritus, since 2002.
Visiting lecturer psychology Princeton University, 1965-1968. Visiting professor Folger Shakespeare Institute, 1977. Visiting professor, Brigham Young University, 1988-2000, adjunct professor, Institute Psychological Sciences, since 2003, board scholars, Princerton James Madison Program, since 2001,visiting senior member Linacre College, visiting lecturer philosophy Oxford (England) University, since 1991, faculty fellow, since 1999, philosophical faculty, since 2002.
Visiting professor Princeton University, 2001. Adjunct professor Columbia University, 2002-2005. Consultant National Institutes of Health, 1967-1970, National Science Foundation, 1965-1975, Public Broadcasting Service, 1978-1984, 1985-1988, MacArthur Foundation, 1985, Attorney Gen's.
Task Force on Crime, 1980, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 1988.
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Fellow American Psychological Association (past president divisions 24 and 26, Lifetime Achievement award Division History of Psychology 2001, Distinguished Contribution award Division Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 2001), Witherspoon Institute (Senior). Member Sigma Xi, Psi Chi.
Children from a previous marriage: Tracey, Kimberly. Married Francine Malasko, 1967.