Prof. Daniel Robinson: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Founding

On November 3rd, 2017, Prof. Daniel Robinson, Fellow of the Faculty at Oxford University and Senior Fellow at the Wheatley Institution, delivered the bi-annual James Wilson Lecture. Prof. Robinson has published over 40 books on psychology and philosophy. He writes widely on the constitutional history of the United States and its philosophical foundations with original research appearing in The International Journal of Constitutional Law and The American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is coeditor of The American Founding: Its Intellectual and Moral Framework. His lecture, "The Scottish Enlightenment and the Founding," examined how the intellectual tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment was passed down to James Wilson, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and other founders.