Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist
McGilchrist in 2018
Born1953 (age 72–73)
OccupationsPsychiatrist, writer, lecturer
Known forThe Master and His Emissary, The Matter with Things

Iain McGilchrist FRSA (born 1953) is a British psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

He is a Quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; a former associate fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford; an emeritus consultant at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal hospitals in south London, a former research fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and a former fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.

In 2021, McGilchrist published a book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics called The Matter with Things.

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