About David

Beginning in July 2026, Dr. David Landy is serving as Interim Dean of the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, overseeing the College's academic, financial, and administrative functions.

He has been at San Francisco State University since 2009, including as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy, Department Chair, and Academic Senator. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism and Hume’s Science of Human Nature, and has additional research interests the history of Modern Philosophy, especially the work of Mary Shepherd, and the history of Twentieth-Century analytic Philosophy, especially the work of Wilfrid Sellars.