How Do You Know That Which You Claim to Know?
Anyone who understands the slightest bit of epistemology knows enough not to claim he or she knows too much with any degree of assuredness. Doubt about what we claim to know is a virtue. This is one of the reasons I doubt the Christian claims. Most Christians claim to know what they believe with complete assuredness. Just read their comments here at DC. I have repeatedly made the distinction between claiming to know something and doubting someone's claims. I simply doubt the Christian claims, and the following books could give Christians an insight into why this is reasonable to do...
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.
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.
How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker.
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
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, and Daniel Simons
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan.
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
by Sandra Aamodt
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
by Daniel L. Schacter
The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
by Donald W. Pfaff
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
by David J. Linden.
Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind.
Neither Gods Nor Beasts: How Science Is Changing Who We Think We Are
by Elof Axel Carlson
[Updated from time to time]
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.
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.
How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker.
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
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, and Daniel Simons
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan.
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
by Sandra Aamodt The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
by Daniel L. Schacter The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
by Donald W. Pfaff The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
by David J. Linden.Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind.
Neither Gods Nor Beasts: How Science Is Changing Who We Think We Are
by Elof Axel Carlson [Updated from time to time]