Over at Debunking Christianity, John Loftus has published a list of books from Ed Babinski which illustrate the importance of skepticism about what we believe to be true. Here’s the short list which John hyperlinked; Ed’s list includes many others.
- On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not
- A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- The You You Don’t Know: Covert Influences on Your Behaviour
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
- Knowledge and Its Limits
- Problems of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology
- What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
I think that the last of these is the only one on my bookshelf ((Of course, I could be wrong about that!)), although I’ve dipped into others (including Dan Ariely’s excellent “Predictably Irrational”). I wonder how many of them are available in Kindle editions? This could get expensive….