The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

What it is about

David Deutsch offers an ambitious account of knowledge and progress grounded in good explanations: explanations that are hard to vary while still accounting for what they claim. Moving across physics, computation, evolution, politics, aesthetics, and optimism, he argues that problems are inevitable but soluble when criticism and creativity remain possible. I need this book close whenever I start thinking the question has become simple.

Why I keep it

Deutsch on explanation. Optimism I can actually argue for.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Philosophy & Meaning