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Book SynopsisCompletes a trilogy that aims to revolutionise our understanding of what it is to be a human being without recourse to theology and supernatural explanations on the one hand or scientism and naturalistic explanations on the other.
Trade ReviewTallis conjures up a challenging and endlessly fascinating way of thinking about ourselves that should act as a signpost for the future where we might learn once again to glimpse, as our forebears did, the wonder - and mystery - of ourselves. -- James Le Fanu One of the most intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene. Raymond Tallis is a man unusual in modern medicine. His career has been devoted to caring for, studying, and advancing the health of older people in society. But while working as a Professor of Geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, he has developed a parallel career - as a philosopher, critic, poet and novelist - largely unknown to his clinical brotherhood and sisterhood. Indeed, important though his medical work has been, it is likely that his philosophy, and especially his philosophical anthropology, will leave a particularly indelible mark on human affairs. -- Richard Horton
Table of ContentsPart 1 - Knowledge Visible and Invisible; 1. The Assault on the Knowing Subject; 2. Naturalised Knowledge; 3. The Case for Epistogony; Part 2 - From Sentience to Sentences; 4. An Outline of Epistogony; 5. Aspects of Propositional Awareness; 6. Some Truths about Truth; Part 3 - The Knowing Agent; 7. The Uncoupled Animal; 8. The Rational Agent; Part 4 - Knowledge Encounters Itself; 9. Appetites and Desires; 10. The Unhealing Wound; Epilogue; Index.
