Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Tallis writes regularly for The Times and Philosophy Now. His research, in the fields of the neurology of old age and neurological rehabilitation, has appeared in Nature Medicine and Lancet.
He has also published works on the philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, literary theory and the nature of art. Tallis offers a critique of current predominant intellectual trends and an alternative understanding of human consciousness, the nature of language and of what it is to be a human being. In the Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine (Autumn 2009) he was listed as one of the top living polymaths in the world.