In this connection, Robinson was among the small group assembled by Martin Seligman in 1999 to develop the framework for Positive Psychology.

[9] In Wild Beasts and Idle Humours,[10] Robinson offered a treatise on the relationship between science and jurisprudence as this developed from ancient to contemporary times.

It synthesizes material that I do not believe has ever been considered in this context, and links up the historical past with contemporaneous values and politics.

Whether the reader agrees or not with the author, one has much to learn from the profundity of Robinson's insight into the framing of moral judgment".

Of Robinson's Philosophy of Psychology,[13] William Dray wrote that "this highly readable book squarely addresses fundamental metaphysical, epistemological and methodological problems...His clear and informed treatment...offers salutary challenge to much conventional wisdom on the nature and prospects of psychological science.