I've been interested for some time in our capacity for self-deception (including my own), and so was intrigued by a book title, Being Wrong.  Kathryn Schulz makes a lively case for being more relaxed about the errors we make, and argues positively that it's only by risking being wrong that we get to empathise with each other.  She has a lot of perceptive things to say about certainty, e.g. Our dislike of doubt is a kind of emotional agoraphobia.  Uncertainty leaves us stranded in a universe that is too big, too open, too ill-defined. Overall, I think she tries to do too much with the argument, and doesn't provide us with…