Josh Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French, Professor of Comparative Literature, and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford University. He joined the Philosophy Talk team as co-host in 2017 when John Perry retired from the show. Among many publications, he is the author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust, How to Do Things with Fictions, and Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction.