DavidLandy

David Landy

Professor and Department Chair
Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology
Phone: (415) 338-3126
Email: landy@sfsu.edu
Location: HUM 327
Office Hours:
Fri: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

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Interests
  • Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Hume, Kant, and Shepherd)
  • Sellars
  • German Idealism
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
Select Recent Presentations
  • 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
Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal
  • 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
Recent Invited Contributions
  • 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