The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

In The Beginning of Infinity, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. The book takes readers through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of civilization, art, moral values, and the theory of political institutions, tracking how we form new explanations and drop bad ones, explaining the conditions under which progress can and cannot happen.