Reading Suggestions 2026

Scientific Testimony

Gerken, Mikkel, Scientific Testimony: Its roles in science and society (Oxford, 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857273.001.0001.

Intro and Chapter 5-7

Folk Epistemology

Gerken, Mikkel, On Folk Epistemology: How we Think and Talk about Knowledge (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803454.001.0001.

Intro, Section 3.3, and Chapter 5.

Gerken, M. (2013). Epistemic focal bias. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(1), 41-61, https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.631020.

Gerken, M. (2020). Truth‐Sensitivity and Folk Epistemology. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 100(1), 3-25, https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12515.

Science Communication

Gerken, M. (2025). Scientific values and value-based science reporting. Philosophical Studies, 182(9), 2551-2575, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02346-4.

Gerken, M. (2020). How to balance Balanced Reporting and Reliable Reporting: Philosophical Studies, 177(10), 3117-3142, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01362-5.