Title:
Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error
Author:
Edition:
First edition
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
New York : Ecco, c2010.
Physical Description:
viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780061176043
9780061176050
Abstract:
Explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships. Claims that error is both a given and a gift -- one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves.
Contents:
The idea of error. Wrongology ; Two models of wrongness -- The origins of error. Our senses ; Our minds, part one : Knowing, not knowing, and making it up ; Our minds, part two : Belief ; Our minds, part three : Evidence ; Our society ; The allure of certainty -- The experience of error. Being wrong ; How wrong? ; Denial and acceptance ; Heartbreak ; Transformation -- Embracing error. The paradox of error ; The optimistic meta-induction from the history of everything.
Language:
English
