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On the Edge of Certainty

by Raymond Tallis
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In earlier work, Raymond Tallis defends the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological, and computational terms. This book continues to investigate these implications of human nature advanced in his earlier works for our understanding of the nature of truth, of language, of the mind, and of the self.

About the Author, Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester.

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Tallis (geriatric medicine, U. of Manchester) extends his defense of the distinctive nature of human consciousness that he began in 1991 with . His challenge to evolutionary and biological reductionists ranges from a lexicon of terms the commonly misuse to meditations on the last week's of Wittgenstein's thinking life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
November 1, 1999
Publisher
Houndmills [England] : Macmillan Press ; 1999.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312224165

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