Abstract

Robinson brings to his defense of moral realism credentials in both philosophy and psychology, honed over a lifetime of learning. The former chairman of the Psychology Department and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Georgetown University, he is currently a Member of the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. At once at home in classical antiquity and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, Robinson has among his many published works books entitled Aristotle’s Psychology, Intellectual History of Psychology, Psychology and Law: Can Justice Survive the Social Sciences, and Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present.