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For example, Anthony Grayling somewhat slated it, in The Literary Review: www.literaryreview.co.uk/grayling_12_09.html. This is somewhat ironic, given the magnificent defence mounted in the book of the humanities, when juxtaposed with Grayling’s attempted launch recently of his own New College of the Humanities; it seems to me that Grayling hasn’t got the hang of McGilchrist’s book.
At least it is worth noting that the book has been much praised by neuro-scientists as diverse as Ramachandran, Panksepp, Hellige, Kesselring, Schore, Bynum, Zeman, Feinberg, Trimble and Lishman.
See, e.g. Whose Wittgenstein?, co-authored with Phil Hutchinson: In Philosophy 80 (2005), p.432–455 http://www.jstor.org/pss/4619665.
Thanks to Cathy Osborne, Tom Greaves, Philip Wilson, Ivan Leudar, Alex Haxeltine, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, Joel Kruger and Graham Read for comments and helpful thoughts. Thanks also to Iain McGilchrist for illuminating correspondence on some of the matters I have discussed here.
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Read, R. Iain McGilchrist, The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the Western world (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010). Phenom Cogn Sci 11, 119–124 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-011-9235-x
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