David Landy

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• Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Hume, Kant, and Shepherd)
• Sellars
• German Idealism
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language
• Metaphysics

• "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: A Case Study in the Refutation of Idealism". Sellarsian Readings of Intuition
• "Kant and Shepherd on the Permanence of Substance". 300 Years of Immanuel Kant, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
• "Shepherd on Judgment, Predication, and the Representation of Causal Relations". Shepherd on Representing Causal Relations Conference in Honor of Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "Causation in Kant’s Account of Perception". Invited Symposium, TEMPO 2024, Metropolitan State University of Denver

• "Kant and Shepherd on the Permanence of Substance." History of Philosophy Quarterly, 44, 1 (October 2024): 361-81
• "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: A Case Study in the Refutation of Idealism". Philosophy and Literature, (forthcoming).
• "Shepherd’s Claim that Sensations Are too Fleeting to Stand in Causal Relations with Other Sensations". Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 23, 1 (March 2025). 
• "Shepherd’s Accounts of Space and Time". Mind, 133, 532 (October 2024): 1100-1120
• "Is Shepherd a Monist?" Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 22, 1 (March 2024): 25-36
• "Shepherd on Reason" British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 32, 1 (2024): 79-99

• "Sellars as a Historian: Early Modern Philosophy." The Sellarsian Mind. Edited by Jeremy Coons. New York: Routledge
• "Shepherd and the Representation of Causal Relations". Naturalism in Early Modern Philosophy: Spinoza, Hume, Shepherd. Edited by Jonathan Cottrell and Aaron Garrett. Oxford, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• "Kant and Sellars on Description and Modality". Kant's Legacy for the 21st Century: Knowledge, Culture, Beauty. Edited by Andrija Jurić and Jessica Leech. New York: Routledge
• "A Kantian Defense of Sellarsian Picturing". Wilfrid Sellars' Images and the Philosophy in Between: Nature and Norms in a Stereoscopic View. Edited by Krisztián Pete and László Kocsis, New York: Bloomsbury
• "The Role of Imagination in Sellars’ Theory of Experience". Sellars’ Reading of Kant. Edited by Luz Seiberth and Mahdi Ranaee, New York: Routledge
• "Shepherd, Hume, and Kant on the Self". Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge. Edited by Keota Fields. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• "Mary Shepherd". Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Nineteenth-Century British and American Philosophy. Edited by Jennifer Keefe and Kipton Jensen