Contemporary Articles

This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Can we Unmake the World we have Made? Dr Iain McGilchrist

Can we Unmake the World we have Made? Dr Iain McGilchrist

Running Time: 00:06:19 Can we unmake the world we have made? Iain McGilchrist draws on his most recent book, The Matter with Things and discusses whether we can unmake the world we have made and unknow what we know. This clip is from an upcoming documentary film by...

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18th November 2022 AIMA Conference – New Zealand

18th November 2022 AIMA Conference – New Zealand

Friday 18th November and Saturday 19th November 2022.  Event description We are excited to invite you to the (fully in-person!) 2022 AIMA Conference on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2022 at the Auckland University of Technology in central Auckland, New...

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Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist – New Zealand

Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist – New Zealand

18th November 2022 Event description Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist.  Renowned psychiatrist, author, thinker, and former Oxford literary scholar. Friday November 18th - 6pm - The Matter with ThingsOur Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World....

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The Matter With Things – Review by Takashi Baba

The Matter With Things – Review by Takashi Baba

Our memories are often fuzzy and people sometimes make up stories after the fact.  We are governed by irrational biases and can be easily fooled. I like to read books on brain science and behavioral economics and have gathered knowledge on this and that about the...

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Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred

Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred

11th November 2022. Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred. Modern Church offers you a chance to hear and engage with one of the most remarkable and highly-acclaimed intellectuals of our time. Iain’s talk will be based on his encyclopaedic book The...

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Recovering the Sacred – the Pari Online Series

Recovering the Sacred – the Pari Online Series

5th - 27th November 2022. with Anne Baring, Bernard Carr, Matthijs Cornelissen, Alex Gomez-Marin, Jeremy Lent, David Lorimer, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Reason, Mary-Jayne Rust Curated by John Pickering Pari Center Online Series November 5 – 27, 2022 9:00am PST | 12:00pm...

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Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

Running Time: 02:00:45 Ralston College presents a lecture by Dr Iain McGilchrist followed by a discussion with Dr Stephen Blackwood and questions from the audience. In his lecture Dr McGilchrist deals with certain themes that are treated at greater length in his...

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