Raymond Tallis
Professor Raymond Tallis is a distinguished polymath—philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and former physician.
Born in Liverpool in 1946, he trained at Oxford and St Thomas' before becoming Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester.
Retiring from medicine in 2006, he had published over 200 medical papers and major textbooks on neurology and geriatrics.
He's a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and received numerous awards including the Lord Cohen Gold Medal.
Beyond medicine, Tallis has authored 23 books on philosophy of mind, literary theory, and cultural criticism, plus fiction and poetry, earning three honorary degrees and recognition as a leading contemporary intellectual.
