Empiricism — Articles — Ilario Colli

Based in New York City, Ilario Colli is an author, philosopher and former classical music journalist. He has been called “Australia’s leading classical music critic” and his first published book, In Art as in Life, has been described as “a major achievement for any writer.”his achievements also include a groundbreaking essay on the sublime and the founding of a new art movement, ‘Sublimism’.

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Hume's Self as a 'Theatre of Perceptions'

Mar 20

Mar 20 Hume's Self as a 'Theatre of Perceptions'

Enlightenment, Philosophy, Selfhood

Descartes’ ‘epistemological turn’ would influence generations of philosophers who, in an attempt to understand the structure of the self, took him – either directly or indirectly – as the starting point of their own reflections. Among the most prominent of these undoubtedly is David Hume.