On the Edge of Certainty

Philosophical Explorations

By: Raymond Tallis

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Paperback | 2 August 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. This ground-breaking book defended the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of those many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. In his laudatory review in The Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Clark expressed the hope that Tallis would continue his explorations. On the Edge of Certainty does precisely that, investigating and clarifying the implications of the highly original view of human nature discussed in his earlier book, in order to understand the nature of truth, of language, of the mind and of the self.

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'As its title and length indicate, this is a Big Book. It is written, nevertheless, in a clear, accessible, unpretentious and often witty style. And as anyone familiar with Raymond Tallis's other similar works will know, it has important things to say....there is about his panoptic sweep an intrepidity, a candour and open-mindedness, a gameness for anything, a total lack of vanity or self-importance, and a generous hatred of cant, that are extremely engaging. Every page of Enemies of Hope is lit by its author's characteristic wisdom and luminous intelligence, and by flashes of novel, striking insight. That alone is as much as to say, read it.' - Robert Grant, The Times Literary Supplement

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'There may be other professors of geriatric medicine who have chosen to write down their views on life, the universe and everything...Raymond Tallis is unusual in that he is philosophically well educated and alert; his books are genuine contributions to professional debate and must be assessed as such.' - Stephen R.L. Clark, Times Literary Supplement

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Philosophy of The Mind Metaphysics & Ontology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works History of Western Philosophy Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Preface	p. xi
Explicitness and Truth (and Falsehood)	p. 1
A Critical Dictionary of Neuromythology	p. 71
The Poverty of Neurophilosophy	p. 127
(That) I Am This (Thing): Reflections on Deixis, Explicitness and the Tautology of the Self	p. 155
On the Edge of Certainty	p. 189
Index	p. 228
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