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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World. A new book by David Deutsch (article by the Economist) | Philosophie et Management

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World. A new book by David Deutsch (article by the Economist)

  29.03.2011   |     David Deutsch, Deutsch David, Infinity, Philosophy, physics, The Economist
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WHY is science so successful? In his long-awaited second book, David Deutsch, a quantum physicist at Oxford University, argues that the discipline provides good explanations, and that explanations hold a special status as fundamental descriptions of the world. A decent explanation has universal reach, he reckons, and the quest for explanations is what makes people human. Identifying good explanations constitutes progress (alas, quantum physics still lacks such an account). And because there is no particular limit to what can be explained, explanations are infinite.

 

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