Raymond Tallis
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“When neuroscience and Darwinism trespass into the humanities, they become, he says, "neuromania" and "Darwinitis" – unhealthy, mad and malign.” |
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Raymond Tallis F.Med.Sci., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.A. (born 1946 in Liverpool) is a British philosopher, humanist, poet, novelist, cultural critic and retired medical doctor.
Philosophical works
Tallis has attacked postmodernism in books such as Not Saussure, Theorrhoea and After and the assumptions of much artificial intelligence research in his book Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Dictionary on Neuromythology. He has also published volumes of poetry, plays and novels. His philosophical writings have attempted to supply an anthropology that acknowledges what is distinctive - and remarkable - about human beings. To this end he has written a trilogy of books entitled The Hand; I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being; and The Knowing Animal.
In 2007, Raymond Tallis finished Unthinkable Thought: The enduring significance of Parmenides. In April 2008, his book about the human head, The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head, was published. His book Michelangelo's Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence was published in 2010.
