RAYMOND TALLIS was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006. A poet, novelist and philosopher, he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty 'Brains of Britain'. In 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of Britain's top 100 Public Intellectuals. Tallis was also elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his research in clinical neuroscience, and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Manchester and Hull for his work in philosophy. The Raymond Tallis Reader was published in 2000 by Palgrave Macmillan and his most recent work, Hippocratic Oaths, was published in 2004 by Atlantic Books.
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Jacky Davis & Raymond Tallis: NHS SOS
An expos of the back-door deals and negligence that threaten to destroy the NHS and a 10-step manifesto for saving it The Coalition Government passed into law an unprecedented assault on the NHS. Doc …
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Raymond Tallis: The Kingdom of Infinite Space
From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, The Kingdom of Infinite Space explores the astonish …
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Raymond Tallis: Hippocratic Oaths
Poet, philosopher, novelist and former physician, Raymond Tallis is one of the world's foremost scientific philosophers. In this book, he brings together his diverse intellectual interests to ad …
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Raymond Tallis: The Black Mirror
In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis reflects on the fundamental fact of existence: that it is finite. Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that &apo …
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Raymond Tallis: Of Time and Lamentation
Time’s mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tall …
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Raymond Tallis: Logos
Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious. Our capacity to …
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Raymond Tallis: Michelangelo’s Finger
Raymond Tallis is a renowned polymath: he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty 'Brains of Britain' and in 2004 Prospect magazine voted him one of Britain's top public …
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Raymond Tallis & Julian Spalding: Summers of Discontent
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings. None …
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Raymond Tallis: The Mystery of Being Human
Brilliant polymath Raymond Tallis tackles the big questions: Do we have free will? Can humanity flourish without religion? Will science explain everything? In a fierce polemic ‘Lord Howe’s Wicked Dre …
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Raymond Tallis: On the Edge of Certainty
Raymond Tallis’s The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. This ground-breaking book defended the distinctive nature of …
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Tallis Raymond Tallis: Michelangelo’s Finger
A renowned British public intellectual illustrates how our unique ability to point the index finger has shaped our amazing evolutionary pathway as humans In this startlingly original and persuasive b …
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Tallis Raymond Tallis: Black Mirror
A physician-philosopher celebrates the mystery and delight of everyday life from an imagined posthumous perspective In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis …
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Raymond (University of Manchester, UK) Tallis: Aping Mankind
Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we …
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Raymond (University of Manchester, UK) Tallis: Aping Mankind
Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we …
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Raymond Tallis: Hunger
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique …
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Raymond Tallis: Hunger
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique …
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Raymond Tallis: Epimethean Imaginings
These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who "traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascinatio …
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Raymond Tallis: Epimethean Imaginings
These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who "traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascinatio …
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Raymond Tallis: Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur
These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis’s infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the title …
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Raymond Tallis: Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur
These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis’s infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the title …
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Raymond Tallis: In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath …
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Raymond Tallis: In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath …
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Raymond Tallis: Not Saussure
This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between langu …
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Raymond Tallis: Theorrhoea and After
Theorrhoea and After completes the work of the author’s previous critiques which demolished post-Saussurean thought and observes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory alive. He then moves on t …
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Raymond Tallis: Logos
Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious. Our capacity to …
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€31.99
Raymond Tallis: Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Prof …
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Raymond Tallis: Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Prof …
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Raymond Tallis: Seeing Ourselves
In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life …
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Raymond Tallis: Seeing Ourselves
In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life …
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Raymond Tallis & Julian Spalding: Summers of Discontent
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings. None …
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Raymond Tallis: Freedom
The question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have free wil …
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Raymond Tallis: Freedom
The question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have free wil …
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Raymond Tallis: Of Time and Lamentation
Time’s mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tall …
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€31.99
Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode: Meaning of Mourning
Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of lo …
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Raymond Tallis: Hand
What are the origins of human difference? The Hand, which is the first part of a bold philosophical inquiry into the nature of the difference between human beings and other animals, argues that it is …
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Raymond Tallis: Circling Round Explicitness
Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped. If there is Something (rather than Nothing) and that Something has an order which, according to the standard story, ul …
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