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"David Deutsch's "Beginning of Infinity" is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It's about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have you. And the business of giving it anything like the attention it deserves, in the small space allotted here, is out of the question. But I will do what I can. "

"Hume's account of causation has a good claim to being one of the most influential views in the history of philosophy. It not only set much of the agenda for large swathes of analytic philosophy in the 20th century and beyond, but it also awoke Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber" - as he put it in his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - and prompted him to write the mighty Critique of Pure Reason, itself a hugely influential work and arguably the starting-point for the continental tradition in philosophy."