Open lecture:"Why brain asymmetry matters to our civilisation and the plight of the humanities"
Iain McGilchrist (born 1953) is a British literary scholar, psychiatrist, and philosopher. He held a prestigious fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and was also affiliated with Green Templeton College, Oxford. After completing his medical studies and specialising in psychiatry, he worked as a consultant at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital in London and conducted research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was also a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. In 2009 and 2021, McGilchrist published two groundbreaking books combining neuroscience research on brain hemisphere functions with philosophical and intellectual history: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (London, 2009), and The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (London, 2021). He is currently an active public intellectual, delivering lectures around the world and sharing his research widely on YouTube.
See more
Open lecture: "Understanding the "failure' of patient-centred care"
Open lecture: "Energising Our Universities Through Continuous Improvement"
Open lecture: "Scoliosis - a verdict or a challenge?"
