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David Landy

Mathematics · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsMathematics Education and Teaching TechniquesPhilosophical Ethics and TheoryPhilosophy and Theoretical ScienceChild and Animal Learning Development

Publications

226

Citations

3,457

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

59

Publishing since 1968

Research summary
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David Landy's research spans the cognitive science of mathematical thinking and how people reason and perceive the world, including studies of how mathematicians experience sudden insights and why people systematically misjudge the size of social groups. The publication record also includes substantial work in the history of philosophy, particularly on the 19th-century philosopher Mary Shepherd. Overall the work sits at the intersection of how the mind processes numbers, quantities, and abstract ideas.

Cognition of mathematical thinking and insightPerceptual and estimation biasesHistory of philosophy (Mary Shepherd, Kant, Hume)Mathematics education and learningReasoning and problem solving

Publication output was high in 2017 and has since declined to a lower, steady level of roughly three papers per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 25 publications25172018: 11 publications182019: 9 publications192020: 9 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×14
  • Cognitive Science×5
  • Journal of Modern Philosophy×3
  • Journal of the history of philosophy×3
  • Kantian Review×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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