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This Palgrave Companion brings together original essays by leading scholars to explore the multifaceted work of one of today’s most provocative thinkers. Spanning Raymond Tallis’s contributions to literary criticism, fiction, poetry, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, medical ethics, and secular humanism, the volume offers a comprehensive and critical engagement with his oeuvre. It includes two original chapters by Tallis himself, who also responds to every chapter in the volume. Contributors examine Tallis’s challenges to scientism and affirm the irreducibility of conscious human agency through rigorous interdisciplinary critique, while also addressing his literary and artistic insights. The book culminates in a reflection from Tallis on sixty years of intellectual inquiry. This Companion is essential reading for students and scholars in philosophy, literature, medical humanities, and cultural criticism, and for anyone interested in the enduring mystery of human consciousness and agency.

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Author:   Robert Doede
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032129062

ISBN 10:   3032129060
Pages:   453
Publication Date:   20 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Ch 1: Introduction.- Ch 2: Tallis looks back on 60 years of authorship.- Part 1: Language, Explicitness, and the Arts.- Ch 3: A Primer to Tallis’ Account of Explicitness.- Ch 4: Towards ‘The Dark Heart of the Light’: The Search for Meaning Through Poetic Imagination in Raymond Tallis’ Works of Fiction.- Ch 5: Not So Sure about Not Saussure?.- Ch 6: A Future for Art? Ray Tallis’ Insight into the Purpose of Art is Now More Vital to Us Than Ever.- Part 2: Phenomenology, Carnal Hermeneutics, and Heidegger.- Ch 7: Conscious Subject as the Limit of Nature in Raymond Tallis’ Philosophy and in Phenomenology.- Ch 8: Tallis and Carnal Hermeneutics.- Ch 9: A Conversation on Heidegger with Raymond Tallis.- Part 3: The Man: Raymond Tallis.- Ch 10: Measuring Tallis’ Distance from Religion.- Ch 11: Socrates and Tallis: Sufficient Reason, Mind, and Hope.- Ch 12: Reflections on Tallis’s Career in Medicine.- Part 4: Humanism and Philosophy of Mind.- Ch 13: Who am I? Raymond Tallis and the Mystery of Personhood.- Ch 14: Tallis’ Take on Panpsychism: A Thorough Assessment.- Ch 15: Towards Ouroboric Thinking.- Ch 16: Science and Mystery.- Ch 17:  Carving Humanity a New One: Enactive Remedies to Tallis’ Mishap with Nature.- Ch 18: Temporal Naturalism and Altered Time: Reply to Tallis.- Ch 19: Tallis on Consciousness.- Ch 20: The Difficult Art of Decolonial Love: On Grief, Outliving, and Healing Together.- Ch 21: The Symbolic Animal.- Part 5: Interrogations.- Ch 22: Reflections on Philosophy.

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Robert Doede is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Western University, Canada.

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