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Prof Dan Robinson

Faculty Fellow
Linacre College

dan.robinson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Linacre College 
Oxford, OX2 6LB

Research Interests

Philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; philosophy of law

Career & Education

B.A. Colgate University (1958)
Ph. D. (Neuropsychology), the City University of New York

Dan Robinson

Publications

  1. Consciousness and Mental Life (2008) Columbia University Press

  2. Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications (2002) Princeton University Press

  3. ‘Dangerousness and ‘the General Duty to All the World’. In Jennifer Radden, ed., Philosophy of Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 271-281

  4. ‘Philosophical Theories of Wisdom’. Lisa Osbeck and Daniel N. Robinson, In: A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives. Robert Sternberg and Jennifer Jordan, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

  5. ‘On the evident, the self-evident and the (merely) observed’. American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2002, vol 47, pp. 197-210.

  6. Jefferson and Adams on the Mind-Body Problem. History of Psychology, 2003, vol. 6, pp. 227-238

  7. ‘How religious experience ‘works’: Jamesian pragmatism and its warrants’. Review of Metaphysics. 2003, vol. 56, pp. 357-372

  8. ‘Punishment, Forgiveness and the Proxy Problem’. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy , 2004, Vol. 18, pp. 373-386

  9. ‘On the primacy of duties’. Philosophy , 1995, vol 70, 513-532 (with Rom Harré)

  10. ‘Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present’. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, , 1996

  11. ‘Fitness for the Rule of Law’. Review of Metaphysics, 1999, Vol. 52, pp. 539-554

  12. ‘What Makes Language Possible? Ethological Foundationalism in Reid and Wittgenstein’. Review of Metaphysics, 1997, Vol. 50, pp. 438-498 (with Rom Harré)

  13. ‘Paradigms and ‘the Myth of Framework’’. How Science Progresses. Theory and Psychology, 2000, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 39-47