Daniel N. Robinson

Robinson does an outstanding job of explaining the American Revolution. He carefully explains all the factions: Revolutionary versus Royalist, Federalist versus Anti-Federalist, North versus South and many others. He brings alive the key player: Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton. L liked learning that Jefferson thought that three key figures in history were Newton, Locke and Bacon whereas Hamilton thought Julius Caesar to be most important. the important role that the show more Scottish Enlightment played on revolutionary America was most interesting. Finally, as a bibliomaniac I was interested to find that John Adams books were much more heavily used than Jefferson's books and that America, with a population much less than England, bought more books than all of England in the 1760s.

I am sure I will listen to this series again, and I have started reading one of the essential references cited by Professor Robinson: E Pluribus Unum by Forrest Macdonald. I can highly recommend this series to those who want to learn more about the history and philosophy of the American revolutionary period. show less

I loved the first edition of this course, and am glad to be able to take the second edition with Prof. Robinson as the sole lecturer. So far it is excellent and he is both erudite and impassioned about making each topic clear and compelling. The course consists of 60 30 min. lectures.

Out of all the teaching company tape series that I have listened to today, and all have been outstanding this one is a step above. Professor Robinson delivers on a laymans level without dumbing things down. His lectures are of great interest and outstanding.

David Perrings

Course Lecture Titles

1. Defining the Subject
2. Ancient Foundations—Greek Philosophers and Physicians
3. Minds Possessed—Witchery and the Search for Explanations
4. The Emergence of Modern Science—Locke's "Newtonian" Theory of Mind
5. Three Enduring "Isms"—Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism
6. Sensation and Perception
7. The Visual Process
8. Hearing
9. Signal-Detection Theory
10. Perceptual Constancies and Illusions
11. Learning and Memory: Associationism—Aristotle to show more Ebbinghaus
12. Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex
13. Watson and American Behaviorism
14. B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism
15. B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society
16. Language
17. The Integration of Experience
18. Perception and Attention
19. Cognitive "Maps," "Insight," and Animal Minds
20. Memory Revisited—Mnemonics and Context
21. Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development
22. The Development of Moral Reasoning
23. Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding
24. Comprehending the World of Experience—Cognition Summarized
25. Psychobiology—Nineteenth-Century Foundations
26. Language and the Brain
27. Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function
28. The "Emotional" Brain—The Limbic System
29. Violence and the Brain
30. Psychopathology—The Medical Model
31. Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution
32. Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"?
33. What Makes an Event "Social"?
34. Socialization—Darwin and the "Natural History" Method
35. Freud's Debt to Darwin
36. Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression
37. Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development
38. Critiques of Freudian Theory
39. What Is "Personality"?
40. Obedience and Conformity
41. Altruism
42. Prejudice and Self—Deception
43. On Being Sane in Insane Places
44. Intelligence
45. Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment
46. Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve"
47. Psychological and Biological Determinism
48. Civic Development—Psychology, the Person, and the Polis show less