On the Edge of Certainty: Philosophical Explorations

Tallis (geriatric medicine, U. of Manchester) extends his defense of the distinctive nature of human consciousness that he began in 1991 with The Explicit Animal . His challenge to evolutionary and biological reductionists ranges from a lexicon of terms the commonly misuse to meditations on the last week's of Wittgenstein's thinking life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)