Books Recommended by David Deutsch
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The Science of Can and Can't
A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Chiara Marletto
Source: "Will open the doors to a dazzling, deep set of new concepts and ideas that will change and affect deeply the way you look at the world." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
The Moral Landscape
How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris
Source: "[The author] wrote [this book] to defend civilisation from two dangers: religious dogmatism and moral relativism." - David Deutsch
2 recommenders
How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters
Daniel Hannan
Source: "Gives a minor but telling example of amazing differences between Euro/Anglo inheritance law." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
Source: "There are a few philosophical errors and poor arguments in [this] otherwise excellent book." - David Deutsch
With the Zionists in Gallipoli
J. H. Patterson
Source: "Has more on [the history of Palestine 1917-20] plus a very interesting perspective on Gallipoli." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Source: "It's pretty clear from [this book] that [the author] was in sympathy with [her father's] educational philosophy." - David Deutsch
2 recommenders
On Numbers and Games
John H. Conway
Source: "See [this book] for how one can nevertheless reason consistently about such monsters." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
TED Talks
The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Chris Anderson
Source: "In [this book], [the author] describes the role The Fabric of Reality played in TED." - David Deutsch
2 recommenders
With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign
J. H. Patterson
Source: "Anyone interested in the history of Palestine 1917-20 [read this book]." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
Objective Knowledge
An Evolutionary Approach
Karl Popper
Source: "See Popper’s essay *Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject* in [this book]." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The Lunar Men
A Story of Science, Art, Invention and Passion
Jenny Uglow
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
Just Six Numbers
The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe
Martin Rees
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
Enlightenment
Britain and the cCeation of the Modern World
Roy Porter
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The World of Parmenides
Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment
Karl Popper
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
In Search of a Better World
Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
Karl Popper
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender- 1 recommender
Popper
Bryan Magee
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
William Godwin
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
Words and Things
An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Ernest Gellner
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The Meaning of It All
Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
Richard P. Feynman
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The Character of Physical Law
Richard P. Feynman
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The Meme Machine
Susan Blackmore
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
John D. Barrow
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
1 recommender
On Computable Numbers
Alan Turing
Source: David Deutsch quoted this book in his paper "Machines, Logic and Quantum Physics."
1 recommender
Virtual Worlds
A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality
Benjamin Woolley
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Unnatural Nature of Science
Lewis Wolpert
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime
John Archibald Wheeler
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Steven Weinberg
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
2 recommenders
The First Three Minutes
A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Steven Weinberg
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Gravitation and Cosmology
Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity
Steven Weinberg
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Physics of Immortality
Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead
Frank J. Tipler
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Does God Play Dice?
The New Mathematics of Chaos
Ian Stewart
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Unity of the Universe
D. W. Sciama
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
A Comprehensive Grammar Of The English Language
Randolph Quirk
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Emperor's New Mind
Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
Roger Penrose
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Anthony O'Hear
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Critical Rationalism
A Restatement and Defence
David Miller
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
A Pocket Popper
David Miller
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Mind, Brain, and the Quantum
The Compound 'I'
Michael Lockwood
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Imre Lakatos
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
Galileo Galilei
A Biography and Inquiry into His Philosophy of Science
Ludovico Geymonat
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Freedom and Rationality
Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends
F. D'Agostino
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Bryce Seligman Dewitt
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meaning of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Ghost in the Atom
A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics
P. C. W. Davies
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
1 recommender
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper
Source: "My starting point [into the author's philosophy]." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
The History of England
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
The Emergent Multiverse
Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation
David Wallace
Source: David Deutsch recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
1 recommender
The Blind Watchmaker
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Richard Dawkins
Source: "Everyone should read [this book]." - David Deutsch
4 recommenders
Conjectures and Refutations
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl Popper
Source: "Everyone should read [this book]." - David Deutsch
2 recommenders
1 recommender
2 recommenders
The Extended Phenotype
The Long Reach of the Gene
Richard Dawkins
Source: "I suggest reading [this book]." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
The Myth of the Framework
In Defence of Science and Rationality
Karl Popper
Source: "I'm very fond of [this book]." - David Deutsch
1 recommender
2 recommenders
1 book
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