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David Deutsch Book Recommendations (62 Books)

David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford.

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Books Recommended by David Deutsch

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The Science of Can and Can't

How We're Different and What to Do About It

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Frankenstein

Source: "It's pretty clear from [this book] that [the author] was in sympathy with [her father's] educational philosophy." - David Deutsch

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On Numbers and Games

John H. Conway

Source: "See [this book] for how one can nevertheless reason consistently about such monsters." - David Deutsch

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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

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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

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Objective Knowledge

An Evolutionary Approach

Karl Popper

Source: "See Popper’s essay *Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject* in [this book]." - David Deutsch

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I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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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."

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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."

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Enlightenment

Britain and the cCeation of the Modern World

Roy Porter

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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The World of Parmenides

Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

Karl Popper

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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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."

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Euthyphro

Plato

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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Popper

Bryan Magee

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

William Godwin

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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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."

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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."

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The Character of Physical Law

Richard P. Feynman

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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The Meme Machine

Susan Blackmore

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

John D. Barrow

Source: David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."

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On Computable Numbers

Alan Turing

Source: David Deutsch quoted this book in his paper "Machines, Logic and Quantum Physics."

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