
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.
Office hours are held in person and via Zoom. Please email Professor Landy to make an appointment.
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