Seeing Ourselves by Raymond Tallis
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, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives if we are to reject religion and naturalism.
In this marvellous book, Raymond Tallis trains his keen intellect on issues central to our understanding of what it is to be human – issues too often side-stepped by contemporary thinkersHe provides powerful insights into the nature of being human and exposes the shortcomings of approaches that limit understanding to any one conceptual orientation. He shows how the adoption of a ‘science of human nature’ has the unsettling effect of fitting the phenomena to the method, thereby reducing the topics of inquiry to mere shadows of themselves. Tallis is a very important thinker and this is a very important book.” -- Stan Klein, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
For Tallis, it is clear that human beings are both a part of nature and apart from nature. This book is a mind-expanding exploration, by one of the world’s leading polymaths and humanists, of the implications and tensions of this insight. -- Fr Andrew Pinsent, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford
Tallis is the best of the humanists, a thinker of undeniable profundity and sensitivity, and Seeing Ourselves is an extraordinary book in its scope, clarity, and generosity. If humanism has any sort of future beyond its perfectly reasonable remit as a campaigning body for increased secular provision in society it will need to engage much more closely with the kinds of questions Tallis raises in Seeing Ourselves. -- Anthony Morgan, The Philosopher
Raymond Tallis applies his extraordinary erudition, as philosopher and neuroscientist, to defending humanity against the predations of those he describes as “neuromaniacs” (who reduce the human self to its brain) and sufferers from “Darwinitis” (who reduce the human self to a stage in natural evolution) ... Tallis offers a rich menu of possibilities for dialogue between humanism and religion ... in [his] generally humane and eirenic quest for meaning and purpose. -- John Saxbee, Church Times
For Tallis, it is clear that human beings are both a part of nature and apart from nature. This book is a mind-expanding exploration, by one of the world’s leading polymaths and humanists, of the implications and tensions of this insight. -- Fr Andrew Pinsent, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford
Tallis is the best of the humanists, a thinker of undeniable profundity and sensitivity, and Seeing Ourselves is an extraordinary book in its scope, clarity, and generosity. If humanism has any sort of future beyond its perfectly reasonable remit as a campaigning body for increased secular provision in society it will need to engage much more closely with the kinds of questions Tallis raises in Seeing Ourselves. -- Anthony Morgan, The Philosopher
Raymond Tallis applies his extraordinary erudition, as philosopher and neuroscientist, to defending humanity against the predations of those he describes as “neuromaniacs” (who reduce the human self to its brain) and sufferers from “Darwinitis” (who reduce the human self to a stage in natural evolution) ... Tallis offers a rich menu of possibilities for dialogue between humanism and religion ... in [his] generally humane and eirenic quest for meaning and purpose. -- John Saxbee, Church Times
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 | 9781788212311 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788212312 |
| Title | Seeing Ourselves |
| Author | Raymond Tallis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Agenda Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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