DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Sandy Goldberg (PhD Columbia University, 1995) works in the areas of Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Mind. His interests in Epistemology include such topics as social epistemology, reliabilism, the epistemology of testimony, the theory of epistemic justification, epistemic normativity, self-knowledge, and skepticism. In the Philosophy of Language and Mind, his interests center on speech act theory, the semantics of speech and attitude reports, the individuation of the propositional attitudes, and externalist theories of mental content and linguistic meaning.

A good sample of his work can be found in his books, Anti-Individualism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Relying on Others (Oxford University Press, 2010), Assertion (Oxford University Press, 2015), To the Best of Our Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2018), Conversational Pressure (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Books

• Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• To the Best of Our Knowledge: Social Expectations and Epistemic Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Assertion: On the Philosophical Significance of Assertoric Speech.  (Oxford University Press.) 2015.
• Relying on Others. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 2010.
• Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), 2007.
• The Brain in a Vat. (Cambridge University Press) 2016. Editor.
• Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism. (Cambridge University Press) 2015. Editor.
• Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology.  Oxford University Press, 2007.  Editor.
• Gray Matters: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997). Co-authored with Andrew Pessin.
• The Twin Earth Chronicles (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).  Co-edited with Andrew Pessin, with an introduction by Hilary Putnam.

For additional work see my Academia page.