Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist.

For the last decade Tallis has been a full-time writer. He has published fiction, poetry, and 25  books on the philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, literary and cultural criticism. His most recent book –  The Black Mirror. Fragments of an Obituary for Life  – has been widely praised and Aping Mankind (2010) is being reissued in 2016 as a Routledge Classic.

Raymond Tallis says:

“I am a humanist and see my work as a doctor and as a philosopher as respectively an expression of, and setting out the case for, my humanist convictions”