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  • HUNGER
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    HUNGER
    RAYMOND TALLIS
    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 character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of needs that are remote from organic necessity. Even first-level biological hunger i...

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  • EPIMETHEAN IMAGININGS
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    EPIMETHEAN IMAGININGS
    RAYMOND TALLIS
    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 fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical "hardy perennials" like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are. The...

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  • IN DEFENCE OF WONDER AND OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS
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    IN DEFENCE OF WONDER AND OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS
    RAYMOND TALLIS
    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 a wide range of commentator whether scientist, theologian, philosopher or pundit. Tallis takes to task much of contemporary science and philosophy, arguing that they are guilty of ...

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  • APING MANKIND
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    APING MANKIND
    RAYMOND TALLIS
    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 draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond Tallis dismantles "Neuromania", arising out of the idea that we are reducible to our brains and "Darwinitis" according to which, s...

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