The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
Explanations That Transform the World
By David Deutsch
By David Deutsch
By David Deutsch
By David Deutsch
Category: Science | World History | Philosophy
Category: Science | World History | Philosophy
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Paperback $21.00
May 29, 2012 | ISBN 9780143121350
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Praise
“Brilliant and exhilarating . . . Deutsch is so smart, and so strange, and so creative, and so inexhaustibly curious, and so vividly intellectually alive, that it is a distinct privilege to spend time in his head.” –The New York Times Book Review
“[Deutsch] makes the case for infinite progress and such passion, imagination, and quirky brilliance that I couldn’t help enjoying his argument. . . . [He] mounts a compelling challenge to scientific reductionism.” –The Wall Street Journal
“A deep theory of why humanity is destined to make progress may be found in David Deutsch’s dazzling The Beginning of Infinity. Deutsch presents science as a force for betterment, since it impels us to explain the world while forcing us to acknowledge our fallibility.” – Steven Pinker, The Guardian
“Provocative and persuasive . . . Address[es] subjects from artificial intelligence to the evolution of culture and creativity.” –The Economist
“[Deutsch’s books] are among the most ambitious works of nonfiction I have read, in that their aim is no less than an explanation of all reality. . . . They are treatises that weave together not just physics and astronomy but biology, mathematics, computer science, political science, psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, and—most important for Deutsch—epistemology, among other fields, in fashioning a profound new view of the world and the universe.” —The New Yorker’s Book Bench
“Deutsch has an important message . . . that our destiny is to be explainers of the world around us, and explaining is the key to our mastery. . . . He writes clearly and thinks wisely. His book could help the world toward better ways of dealing with its problems.” –Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books
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