Epistemology
  • 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
  • 2000 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge – E.O. Wilson (bridging science and humanities)
Scientific Method & Spirit
  • Steven Pinker
    • 2018 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    • 2021 Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
  • Richard Dawkins
    • 1998 Unweaving the Rainbow (scientific understanding does not diminish wonder but enhances it)
    • 2011 The Magic of Reality (for teens, contrasts superstitions with scientific explanations)
    • 2017 Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
  • 2019 The Scientific Attitude – Lee McIntyre (not method, but attitude—willingness to change beliefs based on evidence)
  • 2017 The Knowledge Machine – Michael Strevens (science works: not because it’s logical, but because it’s institutionally irrational (limits subjective reasoning)
  • 1993 Science as a Way of Knowing – John A. Moore
Cognitive Tendencies
  • 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • 2005 The Invisible Gorilla – Chabris & Simons (attention blindness and flawed intuition)
  • 2018 The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe – Steven Novella (tools for scientific skepticism)
  • 2002 Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer (skepticism in everyday life)
Science Communication
  • 1995 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – Carl Sagan
  • 2010 Merchants of Doubt – Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway ()obscured truth, manipulation)
  • 2009 Don’t Be Such a Scientist – Randy Olson (bridging the scientist–audience divide)
  • 2014 If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? – Alan Alda (on empathy and clarity in science)