Logos by Raymond Tallis

Logos by Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis steps into the gap between mind and world to explore what is at stake in our attempts to make sense of our world. He reveals how philosophers, theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary sense-making capabilities and how their attempts are of little help in explaining the intelligibility of the world.

A book for anyone baffled by the world and our place in itTallis is an engaging guide through the fog.

-- Tom McClelland, University of Cambridge
Raymond Tallis is one of the most thoughtful of self-confessed unbelievers. In a sequence of publications, he has demonstrated his grasp of complicated ideas, and his ability to communicate and criticise them with enviable clarity and even-handed good humour ... His aim is 'to remove some of the barriers to seeing the mystery of our capacity to make sense of things'. In this, he succeeds admirably ... Written for the general reader with 'a sub-philosophical frame of mind', this study will repay reading more than once — and then again. -- John Saxbee, Church Times
Tallis calls for an end to the unfruitful antagonism perceived to exist between the human dimension of knowledge and the hard facts of objective reality. It is only by accepting the reality of both, and by paying more attention to the dynamic interplay between them, that we are able to make sense of things ... This book requires careful, thoughtful reading, and readers who already have some familiarity with the debate concerning knowledge will have an easier time. That said, it offers a substantial new direction in a pretty hot area of philosophy. In particular, Tallis’s critiques of the extremes are well-considered. If this is in your area of interest, then this book is more than worth its purchase price. -- Philosophy Now

Much of this elegant, self-deprecating and often witty book will give great pleasure to many theologians ... despite the occasional theological wince, I found much to relish here.

-- Robin Gill, Theology
An erudite tour through the history of ideas and knowing ... of great help to junior undergraduates ... and the literate reader intent on pursuing some of the murkier depths of epistemology. -- Michael Marsh, European Society for the Study of Science and Theology News & Reviews
It only helps that [Tallis] is a polymath, not an academic philosopher. Formally trained in medicine, he is well informed about science, and thus not intimidated by it, as too may academic philosophers are. Not least among his other virtues is the unacademic elegance of his prose. -- Edward Feser, Times Literary Supplement

Raymond Tallis is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Over the last 15 years he has published extensively outside the field of medicine. There have been three books which mount a critique of post-structuralist theory: Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-saussurean Literary Theory (Macmillan, 2nd edn, 1995), In Defence of Realism (Arnold & University of Nebraska Press, 2nd edn, 1998) and Theorrhoea and After (Macmillan, 1998). He has also published four books in the philosophy of mind: The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness (Macmillan, 1991), The Pursuit of Mind (co-edited with Howard Robinson, Carcanet, 1991), Psycho Electronics (Ferrington, 1994) and On the Edge of Certainty and Other Essays (Macmillan, 1999). Further books include Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms (Macmillan, 1995), Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism (Macmillan, 1997) and A Conversation with Martin Heidegger (Macmillan (Palgrave), 2002). An anthology of his theoretical writing - The Raymond Tallis Reader, edited by Michael Grant - was published by Macmillan (Palgrave) in 2000. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (hon causa) at the University of Hull in 1997 for his non-medical writings and the degree of Doctor of Letters (hon causa) at the University of Manchester in 2003 for 'contributions to literary theory and our understanding of human consciousness’. The Knowing Animal is the final volume in the trilogy of books for EUP which began with The Hand and continued with I Am.

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ISBN 13	9781788210874
ISBN 10	1788210875
Title	Logos
Author	Raymond Tallis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Agenda Publishing
Year published	2018-05-26
Number of pages	276
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