caa a22 4500 386384312 CHVBK 20180307112054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500001072 doi S0265052500001072 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500001072 Gibbard Allan Philosophy, University of Michigan Communities of Judgment [Elektronische Daten] [Allan Gibbard] Walk across a campus on a beautiful fall day and observe what a conversing species we are. Chimpanzees can be taught to talk a little, in sign language. Put educated chimpanzees together, though, and they turn out to have nothing to say to each other. We humans are different; we can even find silence awkward. Language does many things for us; conveying straight information is the most obvious. I want to stress, though, some of the ways that talk adjusts our terms for living together. What I say will be speculative and some of it will no doubt be wrong, but I suspect it is not completely off-base. Much of talk we can see as securing and adjusting terms of association - terms, among other things, of cooperation and mutual restraint. In part, this is a matter of governing our feelings toward each other. Feelings tend toward action; they can make for social glue or social bombshells. Nature, in the form of Darwinian evolution, has given us various ways to mesh feelings, and some of these. I think, are a matter of language. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1989 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 175-189 0265-0525 7:1<175 1989 7 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001072 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001072 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gibbard Allan Philosophy, University of Michigan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 175-189 0265-0525 7:1<175 1989 7 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge