Raymond Tallis
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Raymond Tallis (born 1946 in Liverpool, England) retired British gerontologist, philosopher, humanist, poet, novelist and cultural critic.
Tallis is one of five children of Edward Tallis, a small businessman. On leaving public school, he went up to Oxford University to read for a degree in medicine, and went on to do post-graduate work at St Thomas' Hospital in London. He retired in 2006 as Emeritus Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester.[1] Tallis is a leading figure in British medicine.
Due to the quality of his prodigious output Tallis is one of the most respected contemporary British intellectuals. He has attacked postmodernism in books such as Not Saussure,[2] Theorrhoea and After[3] and the assumptions of much artificial intelligence research in his book Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Dictionary on Neuromythology.[4] 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;[5] I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being;[6] and The Knowing Animal.[7]
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.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Andrew Brown "The ardent atheist", - interview with Raymond Tallis in The Guardian, April 29, 2006. Retrieved on 21 July 2007.
- ^ Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory, Macmillan Press 1988, 2nd ed. 1995.
- ^ Raymond Tallis, Theorrhoea and After, Macmillan, 1998
- ^ Raymond Tallis, Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Dictionary on Neuromythology, Imprint Academic, 2004.
- ^ Raymond Tallis, The Hand: A philosophical inquiry into human being, Edinburgh University Press, 2003
- ^ Raymond Tallis, I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being, 2004, Edinburgh University Press
- ^ Raymond Tallis, The Knowing Animal: A Philosophical Inquiry into Knowledge and Truth,Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
- ^ Catherine O'Brien, "Why we kiss, laugh, yawn and cry" - interview with Raymond Tallis in The Times, March 25 2008.
