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): forthcoming
• 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