Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Iain McGilchrist and Jordan Peterson – Wisdom, Delusion, Consciousness & the Divine – EP 436
Running Time: 01:49:34
Webinar ‘Artificial intelligence and the real thing’ by Iain McGilchrist – Embassy of the Free Mind
Thursday 25 April 2024 19:30pm to 21:00pm CEST 18:30pm to 20:00pm (UK time) (online event)Machines cannot understand. They can work out what look like the consequences of data according to extrapolations they have had fed into them by human beings – some of them...
Buddhism is an ideal practice and potent tool for balancing the left and right hemispheres of the human brain by Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Introduction: In this interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a distinguished authority in neuroscience, we explore the nuances of contemporary society, education, and the profound implications of technological advancement, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). Dr....
Nilantha Ilangamuwa – Connecting the Brain’s Missing Links: My Talk with Iain McGilchrist
Introduction: In this interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a distinguished authority in neuroscience, we explore the nuances of contemporary society, education, and the profound implications of technological advancement, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). Dr....
The Matter with Things: Peterson and McGilchrist | #278
Running Time: 1:54:56 The two hemispheres of the human brain are explicitly different and both incredibly complex. Dr. Iain McGilchrist joins to discuss and explore the science of philosophy, covering everything from our ability to reason to how art can cross...
Your Control Freak Left Brain – Feed Your Head, with Iain McGilchrist and Rabbi Adam Jacobs
Running Time: 00:45:36
How Our Brains Turned Fools Woke – Dr. Iain McGilchrist (4K) | heretics. 33 with Andrew Gold
Running Time: 01:11:11
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #1 Opening Worship
Running Time: 00:27:24
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #2 Session 1
Running Time: 00:56:05
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #3 Session 2
Running Time: 00:58:41
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #4 Session 3
Running Time: 01:02:05
The ‘Bishop’s Day’ Series Canterbury 2023 #5 Session 4
Running Time: 00:57:46
The Fairchild Lecture Series Philosophy and Religion Forum Spring 2024
Reflections on Mind, Body, Soul Friday 12th April 2024, 11 am CST(zoom event)The Spring 2024 Forum talks are hosted on Zoom. The meetings are available at the following link: Topic: Philosophy & Religion Forum Join Zoom...
Iain McGilchrist interviewed by Scott Barry Kaufman. The Great Right Brain Debate
Introduction: The idea of the brain being split into right and left hemispheres that do radically different things has entered the popular imagination. Following an article exchange on the IAI, Scott Barry Kaufman and Iain McGilchrist finally meet to investigate the...
Iain McGilchrist & Damien Walter on the Mythos and the Machine
Running Time: 01:54:11
Dr Todd Pringle, Dr Michael Robinson and Dr Iain McGilchrist in Conversation : The Crosswinds Institute
Running Time: 01:55:33
NDSU – The Dakota Review : Tyler Henry Waltz and Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:50:49
A Revolution in Thought? – Dr Iain McGilchrist
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Iain McGilchrist: Dominus Illuminatio Mea: Our Brains, Our Delusions, & the Future of the University
Running Time: 01:19:14
A Revolution in Thought? – Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:04:11
The nature and importance of brain asymmetry; an afternoon with Iain McGilchrist – The RCP’s Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group, London.
Friday 5th April 2024, from 1pm (in-person event) Event description. Dr Iain McGilchrist is a retired psychiatrist and clinical director. He was previously an Oxford don in English literature. He has authored a number of major works that have attracted worldwide...
2024 John P McGovern Lecture, Duke University, USA – A Medicine More Fit for Humanity
Tuesday 2nd April 2024, 5.30pm, the Great Hall, Trent Semans Centre (in-person event) Event description. We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice of medicine. What is the calling of medicine? Is it not...
RESIST THE MACHINE APOCALYPSE by Iain McGilchrist – 2024
Introduction: No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but riches—and power, the only point in having riches—do not make people happy. Ask a psychiatrist. Or take a look at the face of Vladimir Putin, who has, alas, the...
Is Creativity Essential to Understanding the Universe? | Roger Penrose and Iain McGilchrist at the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI)
Running Time: 00:10:22
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#1: Opening Worship)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#2: Session 1)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#3: Session 2)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#4: Session 3)
The ‘Bishop’s Day Series’: Canterbury 2023 (#5: Session 4)
The Fargo Radio Podcast : Craig Blumenshine with Dr Iain McGilchrist – January 2024
A Holistic Response to Cultural Decline with Dr Luke Martin and Dr Iain McGilchrist – Creed and Culture E:31
Running Time: 00:46:04
CONFERENCE VISION AND RATIONALE: San Francisco, CA – Co-organized by California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) & Center for Process Studies (CPS)
Friday, March 29th to Sunday, March 31st, 2024 (in person event) Event description. Iain McGilchrist’s recent magnum opus The Matter With Things (2021) constitutes one of the most significant contributions to the contemporary process tradition as revealed through...
The Divided Brain and the Relationship Between the Sciences and Humanities, Hillsdale College, USA
Wednesday 20th March 2024, 4.00pm (in-person event) Event description. The author of two landmark works—The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things—Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s original insight into the brain hemispheres’ distinctive “takes” on reality arises...
Wholeness, Imagination, and Cosmos with Iain McGilchrist, Ralston College, USA
Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th March 2024, 5pm to 7pm(in-person event - and recorded for registered attendees) Event description. The Sophia Lectures explore the perennial questions of philosophy as they bear on the meaning and value of modern life. While the...
Intelligence, Imagination, Illumination: Theological Responses to Things the Matter – Iain McGilchrist speaking on Intelligence, Imagination, and the Sacred, in dialogue with John Milbank and others
Saturday 10th February 2024 09:00 - 17:00 (in person event) Event description. A one day conference exploring theological responses to The Matter With Things in conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist, Dr John Millbank and the Cambridge Theological Federation. This is a...
A revolution in thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis – Darwin Lecture, Darwin College, Cambridge University, Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue – Cambridge University
9th February 2024, 17:30-18:30 (in-person event) Event Description. It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds – environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on – these crises are...
The Indispensable Need to Learn to See Anew by Annmarie Sanders, IHM
Introduction: Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a fellow of the Royal College of...
Radio Skye’s Suzy Lee chats to Dr Iain McGilchrist
It's not every day you get an hour with a Psychiatrist to pick their brains on the state of the world, but today Suzy gets just that! Dr Iain McGilchrist, a renowned psychiatrists, writer and former Oxford scholar who lives in Skye is well known for his books 'His...
RECOLLECTION LECTURE SERIES: Dominus Illuminatio Mea: our Brains, our Delusions and the Future of the University
Wednesday 7th, February 2024, 4.00pm - 5.00pm (in-person event) Event description. Universities face a number of challenges which threaten to make them less attractive and more expensive. Indeed, some seem already to consider universities increasingly irrelevant. Yet...
The Psychology Podcast – Right Brain, Creativity, and Meaning in Life with Scott Kauffman and Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:01:56