Daniel N. Robinson Audio & Video

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason stands as a touchstone work in modern philosophy, and in this free course provided by Oxford, Professor Daniel Robinson will bring his wit, enthusiasm and deep scholarship to bear on this seminal, though admittedly difficult book.

The course covers traditional psychologists such as Freud, Skinner, Jung, Watson, Piaget, and Erikson, as well as philosophers and other thinkers who have had an impact on the field.

It's as essential to human existence as water is to a fish, and yet every night we surrender it gratefully. As human beings, we recognize that we have it, but we can never be sure anyone else does. It has been the subject of debate for philosophers and scientists for millennia, but we've yet to pin down or even understand its true essence and purpose.

These lectures link the concerns of geniuses across centuries with the same fundamental questions, making their debates our own.

Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important philosopher ever to write in English”. His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called Scottish Common Sense Philosophy.

The United States is often thought of as a "young" nation. But in fact, it is the oldest continuing democracy in the world.

Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University; Georgetown University.