Books by David Deutsch
“David Deutsch is a physicist. He wrote a book in the 90s called The Fabric of Reality. This is his more recent book, and it’s called The Beginning of Infinity. It’s just a wonderfully entertaining romp through astronomy, physics at every scale, science, history, culture. It’s a fabulous popular science book, in a way, though it can also be challenging…At the end of each chapter, Deutsch has a little summary page” Read more...
The best books on Language and Post-Truth
Nick Enfield, Linguist
Interviews where books by David Deutsch were recommended
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Language, Thought, and Reality
by Benjamin Lee Whorf -
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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
by Karl Popper -
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch -
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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
by Hugo Mercier -
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
by Julia Galef
The best books on Language and Post-Truth, recommended by Nick Enfield
The best books on Language and Post-Truth, recommended by Nick Enfield
The word ‘post-truth’ may only have entered the Oxford English Dictionary in the last decade, but the phenomenon it describes is much older and deeper, connected not so much to the latest internet trend as the fundamentals of human cognition and communication. Here, linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield, a professor at the University of Sydney and a member of its fighting truth decay research node, introduces the best books to get thinking about the complex relationship between language and reality.
