David Landy

Biographic Data

ID79159
NAMEDavid Landy
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMELandy
SIGNATURELANDY D
AFFILIATIONSTrinity College Dublin
ORCID0000-0003-2212-6379
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS380
AUTHOR COUNT74
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Prayer as collaborative problem solving

    Open AccessEleanor Brower Schille-Hudson, T M Luhrmann et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2025

    Why do people pray? In this paper, we suggest another important dimension of prayer, namely that prayer is a form of collaborative problem solving. In this paper, we use both qualitative evidence drawn from interviews and quantitative evidence from a survey and an experiment to show that people use prayer to solve practical problems in their lives. We also argue that the informal and personal ways in which people address God in prayer put God int…

  • Bias in Self‐Knowledge of Global Communities

    Open AccessEleanor B Schille‐Hudson, David LandyARTICLECognitive Science2025References: 27

    Citizens in countries around the world dramatically overestimate the size of minority demographic groups and underestimate the size of majority groups. Media outlets and researchers have concluded that this pattern of errors is a result of characteristics of individual and societal distortions, such as the level of threat the group is imagined to pose and the amount of exposure someone has with the group. More recent work suggests that this error…

  • Shepherd on reason

    David LandyARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…2024

    Mary Shepherd assigns reason a central role in her philosophical system, and so to understand that system we must understand her conception of reason. Does she, like Hume, take reason to be a mere matter of factual process that operates over independently contentful representations? Does she, like Descartes, take it to be a process that is intended to track the rational relations among such representations? Or does she, like Kant, take reason to …

  • Is Shepherd a Monist

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEJournal of Scottish Philosophy2024

    For Shepherd, how many things exist? On the one hand, it looks like the answer is going to be many. It is a central tent of Shepherd's philosophical system that causation is a relation whereby two or more objects combine to create a third. Since there are many instances of this causal relation, there must be many objects in the world. On the other hand, there are several moments throughout her writing where Shepherd indicates that the distinction…

  • Is Shepherd a Bundle Theorist

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEJournal of Scottish Philosophy2023References: 2

    Shepherd appears to endorse something like the following biconditional regarding qualities and objects: Necessarily, an object exists if and only if some bundle of qualities exists. There is a growing consensus in the secondary literature that she takes the right side of this biconditional to ground the left side – that is, that Shepherd is a bundle theorist who takes an object to be nothing but a mass of qualities or causal powers. I argue here …

  • Kant’s Better-than-Terrible Argument in the Anticipations of Perception

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEKantian Review2020

    Scholars working on Kant’s Anticipations of Perception generally attribute to him an argument that invalidly infers that objects have degrees of intensive magnitude from the premise that sensations do. I argue that this rests on an incorrect disambiguation of Kant’s use of Empfindung (sensation) as referring to the mental states that are our sensings, rather than the objects that are thereby sensed. Kant’s real argument runs as follows. The diffe…

  • The Fighting Irish? Explaining the Temporal Pattern of Social Protest during Ireland's Fiscal Crisis 2008-2014

    Open AccessRichard Layte, David LandyARTICLESociology2018References: 18

    The fiscal crisis of 2008 led to severe recession and hardship in Ireland, yet there was relatively little civic unrest and public protest until the autumn of 2014 when, paradoxically, economic conditions had improved significantly. Sociologists often explain such patterns by invoking a social mechanism based on perceived 'relative deprivation' among a population sub-group. We show that these processes cannot explain the temporal pattern of prote…

  • Hume’s Science of Human Nature

    David LandyBOOKHume's Science of Human Nature2017

    Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a …

  • The place of Palestinians in tourist and Zionist discourses in the ‘City of David’, occupied East Jerusalem

    David LandyARTICLECritical Discourse Studies2017Cited by: 2References: 13

    The ‘City of David’ in Silwan is on the original site of Jerusalem. Located in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, it is both an illegal Israeli settlement in a Palestinian neighbourhood and a popular international tourist destination. This article examines how the site is narrated by tour operators and tourists through fieldwork, interviews and analysis of tourist comments on the TripAdvisor site. It argues that Israeli settlers have successfully h…

  • The return of the ‘Black Babies’

    Vera Sheridan, David Landy et al.ARTICLERace Ethnicity and Education2017Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article investigates how development education campaigns affect schoolchildren’s understanding of both global and domestic poverty, through examining the 2012 Lenten campaign by the Irish agency, Trócaire. It analyses Trócaire campaign material as well as its reception by schoolchildren, aged 10–12. We found the material contained neo-colonial stereotypes about Africa as a primitive place dependent on Western aid, displaying continuity with …

  • Muslims in neoliberal Ireland

    David LandyARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2017

  • Testing the Effectiveness of a Number-Based Classroom Exercise

    Open AccessBernard Guay, Brian Guay et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2016Cited by: 2References: 11

    Large numbers permeate political life, and students of political science can expect to encounter a wide range of numbers in newspaper articles, course readings, and statistics. Recent research in cognitive psychology demonstrates that American adults make systematic errors when comparing numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions. Political decisions made by voters often require weighing large quantities that range across many orders of mag…

  • Kant's Inferentialism

    David LandyBOOKKant's Inferentialism2015Cited by: 2

    Introduction 1. Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 2. Two Objections to Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 3. The A-Deduction and the Nature of Intuitions 4. The Object of Representation 5. Self and World in the Analogies of Experience 6. The Inferential Self Postscript of Transcendental Idealism

  • Bringing the Outside In

    David LandyARTICLESocial movement studies2015Cited by: 6References: 23

    This article applies field theory in order to build an understanding of aspects of social movements practice. It argues that the way social movements are positioned within their various fields of practice and the way these fields inter-relate with each other can help explain how movements arrive at their strategies and ideologies. The relationship between the fields within which social movements operate also provides a means to explain how moveme…

  • SAI News and Notices

    Open AccessJose Angel Gutierrez, José Gutiérrez et al.ARTICLEIrish Journal of Sociology2014

  • Challengers in the migrant field

    David LandyARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2014Cited by: 4References: 17

    This article examines the dynamics through which the migrant field in Ireland is governed, and, through analysing NGO contention over the Immigration, Residence and Protection (IRP) Bill, explores the role they play in the field. The article argues that NGOs both influence and are institutionally channelled by state discourse surrounding migrants. The IRP Bill was designed to regulate non-EU citizens in Ireland, and codified the discretionary pow…

  • Talking human rights

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEInternational Sociology2013Cited by: 6References: 27

    Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific social movement - Israel-critical diaspora Jewish activists - and argues that it can simultaneously challenge and reproduce existing practices of domination. The article applies contemporary critiques of human rights to the case of P…

  • We are more than statistics and scattered body parts

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEInternational Sociology2013Cited by: 1References: 6

    The fragmentation of Palestinian lives into exile, under occupation and within Israel has led to a complex interweaving of collective memory and individual memories in the attempt to come to terms with and represent this existence. Central to Palestinian self-understanding is the key interruptive event of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 which disrupted the people's links to the land of Palestine - not only for Palestinians in…

  • Co-memory and Melancholia. Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba. By Ronit Lentin

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLENations and Nationalism2011

  • Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights

    David LandyBOOKJewish Identity and Palestinian…2011

    Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights. In the USA, Europe and elsewhere, Jewish organisations have sprung up to oppose Israel's treatment of Palestinians, facing harsh criticism from fellow Jews for their actions

  • Improving Perception to Make Distant Connections Closer

    Open AccessRobert L Goldstone, David Landy et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2011Cited by: 4References: 2

    One of the challenges for perceptually grounded accounts of high-level cognition is to explain how people make connections and draw inferences between situations that superficially have little in common. Evidence suggests that people draw these connections even without having explicit, verbalizable knowledge of their bases. Instead, the connections are based on sub-symbolic representations that are grounded in perception, action, and space. One r…

  • Inferentialism and the Transcendental Deduction

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEKantian Review2009

    One recent trend in Kant scholarship has been to read Kant as undertaking a project in philosophical semantics , as opposed to, say, epistemology, or transcendental metaphysics. This trend has evolved almost concurrently with a debate in contemporary philosophy of mind about the nature of concepts and their content. Inferentialism is the view that the content of our concepts is essentially inferentially articulated, that is, that the content of a…

  • Zionism, Multiculturalism and the Construction of Irish-Jewish Identity

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLEIrish Journal of Sociology2007

    This paper examines the construction of Irish-Jewish identity, through the prism of the Ireland–Israel soccer match in 2005. While, under the terms of ‘celebratory multiculturalism’ Irish Jews were able to use joke-work to bat away the implied loyalty test of ‘which side are you on’, the pro-Palestinian political mobilisation on the day of the match was more problematic. Within the narrative of Irish Zionism, these pro-Palestinian activities were…

  • Hume's Impression/Idea Distinction

    David LandyARTICLEHume studies2006

    Understanding the distinction between impressions and ideas that Hume draws in the opening paragraphs of his A Treatise on Human Nature is essential for understanding much of Hume's philosophy. This, however, is a task that has been the cause of a good deal of controversy in the literature on Hume. I here argue that the significant philosophical and exegetical issues previous treatments of this distinction (such as the force and vivacity reading …

  • Inca Israeli-Jews

    Open AccessDavid LandyARTICLERace & Class2003Cited by: 2