Sanford Goldberg
Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities
Curriculum Vitae

- s-goldberg@northwestern.edu
- 847-491-8524
- Kresge 3-431
Sandy Goldberg (PhD Columbia University, 1995) works in the areas of Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind. Goldberg’s interests in Epistemology include such topics as reliabilism, the epistemology of testimony, the theory of epistemic justification, social epistemology, self-knowledge, and skepticism. In the Philosophy of Mind and Language, his interests center on the individuation of the propositional attitudes, externalist theories of mental content and linguistic meaning, the semantics of speech and attitude reports, and speech act theory.
A good sample of his work can be found in his five recent 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), and Conversational Pressure (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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.