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Books recommended by David Deutsch

David Deutsch recommends 19 books, among them The Selfish Gene, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Science & nature

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

Nonfiction

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Daniel Dennett

Philosophy

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

Economics & politics

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Neal Stephenson

Fiction

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Fiction

How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters

Daniel Hannan

Philosophy

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter

Philosophy

Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe

Martin Rees

Philosophy

Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

Karl Popper

Philosophy

On Numbers and Games

John H. Conway

Science & nature

TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

Chris J. Anderson

Self-improvement

The Ascent of Man

Jacob Bronowski

History

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

Spirituality & religion

The Lunar Men

Jenny Uglow

History

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

Spirituality & religion

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

History

The Science of Can and Can't

Chiara Marletto

Science & nature

With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign

John Henry Patterson

History