Sanford Goldberg is a contemporary analytic philosopher at Northwestern University whose work centers on social epistemology, the epistemology of testimony, and epistemic dependence. He has developed influential accounts of how knowledge and justification are transmitted through social chains of testimony and has advanced anti-individualist approaches to epistemic responsibility. His research also engages questions of assertion, extended cognition, and the normative dimensions of epistemic reliance on others.
Developed a systematic anti-individualist account of epistemic justification and knowledge
Authored Relying on Others (2010), a foundational treatment of epistemic dependence on testimony
Authored Assertion (2015), analyzing the norms governing sincere assertion
Advanced accounts of how testimonial justification propagates through multi-link chains of testimony
Contributed to debates on extended cognition and the social dimensions of epistemic responsibility
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