Katie Ebner-Landy

Assistant Professor of Aesthetics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Katie Ebner-Landy is assistant professor of aesthetics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2025).

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Written by Katie Ebner-Landy

Painting of three 18th-century men in discussion, one holding an illustration. A dog lies on the floor.

essayVirtues and vices

David Hume vs literature

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

Katie Ebner-Landy