Raymond Tallis
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Raymond Tallis (born 10 October 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.
Bibliography
- Glints of Darkness (1987)
- Fathers and Sons (1993)
- Psycho-electronics: Or a Guide, in the Form of a Lexicon, to the Pseudo-science of Cognitive Mechanics (1994)
- Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (1988)
- Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms (1995)
- Epilepsy In Elderly People (Medical Pocketbooks) (1996)
- Between the Zones: Poems by Raymond Tallis (1997)
- Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism, Irrationalism, Anti-humanism and the Counter-enlightenment (1997)
- Theorrhoea and After (1998)
- In Defence of Realism (1988)
- The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness (1999)
- Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism (1999)
- On the Edge of Certainty: Philosophical Explorations (1999)
- The Raymond Tallis Reader (2000)
- A Conversation with Martin Heidegger (2001)
- The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being (2003)
- I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-person Being (2004)
- The Knowing Animal: A Philosophical Inquiry into Knowledge and Truth (2004)
- Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology (2004)
- Absence (2006)
- The Enduring Significance of Parmenides: Unthinkable Thought (2007)
- The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head (2008)
- Michelangelo's Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence (2010)
- In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections (2012)
- NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed - and How We Can Save It (2013)
- Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur: And Other Essays (2014)
- The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey around Your Head (2014)
- Hunger (2014)
- Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (2014)
- Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents (2015)
- The Black Mirror (2015)
- The Mystery of Being Human: God, Freedom and the NHS (2016)
- Of Time and Lamentation: Reflections on Transcience (2017)
- Logos: The Mystery of How We Make Sense of the World (2018)
