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Ronald Giere, 2006, Scientific Perspectivism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giere argues that scientific claims are conditioned on highly confirmed theory or reliable observations such that if the assumptions of the underlying theories or the biophysical properties of the instrument/observer changes, then the result can be a different, even incommensurable, accounts of the natural world. There is no complete, objective, or singularly correct account of the world through correspondence how the world really is.

Alvin I. Goldman and Matthew McGrath, 2015, Epistemology. A Contemporary Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book contains advanced discussions of the structure and nature of justification, the Gettier problem, skepticism, and contextualism. It also covers methodological questions concerning the use of intuitions as evidence as well as important new developments in social epistemology which are important for understanding how knowledge emerges from research teams, as opposed to individual scientists.

David Manley, 2019, Reason Better: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Critical Thinking (Tophat Monocle) https://app.tophat.com/e/455176/assigned This recent and very accessible book on critical thinking covers many of the concepts we encountered in this chapter, such as reasoning and inference. In addition, it contains illuminating discussions of various biases, inferential fallacies, and cognitive illusions that can interfere with successful reasoning.