Physicist and Author
David Deutsch is a British Israeli physicist at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society, whose pioneering papers laid the foundations of quantum computation. He is the author of The Beginning of Infinity, which explores how explanations transform the world across science, philosophy, and culture.
by David Deutsch
Deutsch argues all progress stems from good explanations, conjectures hard to vary while still accounting for what we observe. Problems are inevitable but always soluble.
The books David Deutsch references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Thomas Kuhn
Kuhn argues that science doesn't progress through steady accumulation but through paradigm shifts - revolutionary breaks where the entire framework changes. Normal science solves puzzles until anomalies trigger a crisis.
by Charles Darwin
Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.
Who David draws from, and who draws from David — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.