Joshua LandyJoshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and professor of comparative literature at Stanford University, where he codirects the initiative in philosophy and literature and cohosts the NPR show "Philosophy Talk." His books include Phiosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust, How to Do Things With Fictions, and (as coeditor) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Read More Read Less