Faculty Profile for Dr. Casey Landers

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Dr. Casey Landers
Assistant Professor — Philosophy
phone: (512) 245-2285
Scholarly/Creative Work

Biography Section

Biography and Education
Dr. Landers is from McKinney, Texas. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Miami in 2022. She was a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University in 2019. She earned her MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University in 2015 and a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Texas Tech University in 2011.

Teaching Interests

 At Texas State University, Dr. Landers regularly teaches in-person and online sections of Phil 1320: Ethics and Society. She also teaches seminars on topics such as Feminist Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind, and directs independent studies on the philosophy of virtual reality, to graduate students enrolled in the Applied Philosophy and Ethics MA (MAAPE) program. At previous institutions, she taught Critical Thinking, Introduction to Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics, and more.

Teaching topics: Applied ethics; biomedical ethics; philosophy of technology; philosophy of mind; artificial intelligence; cognitive science; feminist theory; social philosophy

Research Interests

 Dr. Landers' primary areas of focus are philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, and cognitive science. Her training is at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. She works especially on the contents of perception, visual expertise, perceptual learning, and the relation between thought and perception. ​

Dr. Landers is also active in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Research area and topics: Philosophy of mind, perception, and cognitive science; Perception and categorization; Perceptual learning; Cognitive penetration; Visual expertise; Technophilosophy, especially work on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR); feminist philosophy; social philosophy; scholarship of teaching and learning

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Landers, C. (2025). On Perceptual Wronging. Southwest Philosophy Review.
  • Landers, C. (2024). ChatGPT, The Cupid Model, and Low-Stakes Writing. AAPT Studies in Pedagogy.
  • Landers, C. (2024). The Offload Response for Low-Level Theorists. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00852-1
  • Landers, C. (2020). Specialized Visual Experiences. The Philosophical Quarterly, 71(1), 74–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa018
  • Heiphetz, L., Van Leeuwen, N., & Landers, C. (2021). Does “think” mean the same thing as “believe”? Linguistic insights into religious cognition. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 13(3), 287–297.