Works Cited and Recommended References

Works Cited

• Alcoff, Linda Martín. Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self. Oxford University Press, 2006. (Primary source for the application of Standpoint Theory).

• Clifford, W.K. “The Ethics of Belief.” Contemporary Review, 1877. (The seminal text for Evidentialism).

• Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy. 1641. (The foundational text for Modern Rationalism and the Cogito).

• Gettier, Edmund. “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” Analysis, vol. 23, no. 6, 1963, pp. 121–123. (The revolutionary paper that redefined the JTB model).

• Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748. (The primary source for Empiricism and the “Copy Principle”).

• James, William. “The Will to Believe.” The New World, 1896. (The primary pragmatic counter-argument to Clifford).

• Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. 1781. (The source of the Kantian Synthesis of rationalism and empiricism).

• Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. 1689. (The foundational text for the Tabula Rasa view).

• Plato. Theaetetus. (The classical origin of the Justified True Belief definition).

Recommended References

Truth and Reality

• Blackburn, Simon. On Truth. Oxford University Press, 2018. (A concise, accessible guide to the major theories of truth).

• Lynch, Michael P. True to Life: Why Truth Matters. MIT Press, 2004. (Explores the social and political importance of the correspondence theory).

Epistemology and Knowledge

• Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. Cornell University Press, 1986. (Deep dive into the development of Standpoint Epistemology).

• Nagel, Jennifer. Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014. (An excellent primer on the Gettier Problem and internalism vs. externalism).

The Ethics of Belief

• Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books, 1996. (Source for the Sagan Standard regarding extraordinary claims).

• Vaughn, Lewis. The Power of Critical Thinking. Oxford University Press. (A standard pedagogical text for understanding Rebutting and Undermining Defeaters).