CONVERSATIONAL PRESSURE C

Sanford C. Goldberg explores the source, nature, and scope of the normative expectations we have of one another as we engage in conversation. He examines two fundamental types of expectation -- epistemic and interpersonal -- that are generated by the performance of speech acts themselves.

Sanford C. Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995 and has taught previously at Grinnell College, the University of Kentucky. He has also served as Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2014-2017) and at the University of St. Andrews (2018-present).

- 1: The Phenomenon of Conversational Pressure - Section I: The Act Of Address - 2: Your Attention Please! - Section II: The Speech Act: Performance and Uptake - 3: Conversational Pressures, Interpersonal and Epistemic - 4: The Speaker's Expectation of Trust: Some False Starts - 5: How to Treat a Testifier - 6: Anti-Reductionism and Expected Trust - 7: Does Friendship Exert Pressure on Belief? - Section III: Uptake of Uptake - 8: Conversational Silence - 9: Silence Misinterpreted: The Double-Harm of Silencing - 10: The Social Epistemology of Public Uptake - 11: The Epistemic Costs of Politeness - 12: Conclusion