The Brain and Our Encounter with the World with Iain McGilchrist
The Brain and Our Encounter with the World with Iain McGilchrist
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September 4, 2021 – At the very least, our brains help to shape our consciousness. Can an examination of the way in which they do so help us to reconcile different visions of ourselves and of our world? There is nothing reductionist about asking such a question: rather, McGilchrist suggests, it helps us to transcend the limitations of reductionism itself. Importantly it may, for the first time, give philosophy a basis for judging certain views on the world as worthier of acceptance than others.
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009), and is shortly to publish a book on epistemology and ontology called The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.
