Raymond C Tallis was born on 10 October 1946 and is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic and a retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist.
10 Facts About Raymond Tallis
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On leaving Liverpool College, Raymond Tallis gained an Open Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he completed a degree in animal physiology in 1967.
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Raymond Tallis completed his medical degree in 1970 at the University of Oxford and St Thomas' Hospital in London.
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Raymond Tallis has been on the Standing Medical Advisory Committee and the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and was secretary of the Joint Specialist Committee of the Royal College on Health Care of the Elderly between 1995 and 2003.
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Raymond Tallis was a member of the Joint Task Force on Partnership in Medicine Taking, established by Alan Milburn, the Secretary of State for Health, in 2001.
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Raymond Tallis retired in 2006 as professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester.
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Raymond Tallis attacked post-structuralism in books such as Not Saussure and Theorrhoea and After, and he contested assumptions of artificial intelligence research in his book Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Dictionary on Neuromythology.
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Raymond Tallis denies that our appreciation of art and music can be reduced to scientific terms.
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Raymond Tallis has argued extensively about the perceived misuse of scientific language and concepts to explain human experiences.
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In 2007 Raymond Tallis published Unthinkable Thought: The Enduring Significance of Parmenides.