Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist (born 1953) is a British psychiatrist, literary scholar, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book ''The Master and His Emissary'', subtitled ''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 Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital 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. McGilchrist is retired, though he continues to work as an independent scholar from his home on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

In 2021, McGilchrist published a new book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics called ''The Matter with Things''. Provided by Wikipedia