Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher whose landmark book The Master and His Emissary argues that the brain's left and right hemispheres attend to the world in fundamentally different ways, and that Western civilization's over-reliance on left-hemisphere thinking carries profound cultural consequences. His 2021 follow-up The Matter with Things extends this thesis into epistemology, metaphysics, and the nature of consciousness.