Joshua Landy

Professor Joshua Landy

Instructor, Film and Philosophy

Ph.D., Princeton University, Comparative Literature
M.A., Cambridge University, French & German
B.A., Churchill College, Cambridge, French & German

Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature and co-hosts the nationally syndicated public radio program “Philosophy Talk.”  His books include Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford, 2004), How to Do Things With Fictions (Oxford, 2012), The World According to Proust (Oxford, 2022), and (as coeditor) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Stanford, 2009).