A seven-year fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, with freedom to pursue whatever intellectual interests one chose, enabled McGilchrist to later write comprehensive philosophical books drawing on wide fields of inquiry that would have been impossible without that freedom.

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Iain McGilchrist

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I got this fellowship at 21 of all cells and I was to embark on a doctorate on um 18th century English literature and this Fellowship was a seven year Fellowship after examination there's this strange thing that doesn't have any equivalent to Cambridge or anywhere else in Oxford of economies that consists only a fellow it's not of any students graduate or otherwise

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
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