Kenny Walden

Thanks, Karl!

Sorry, no, philosophy is not a battle of metaphors; it's Great British Bake-Off for metaphors.

Kenneth Walden, Creativity as a higher agency - PhilPapers Can human agency produce things that are genuinely creative and original? Some philosophers are skeptical. Here I argue that the case of creative activity should lead us to reexamine and ultimately .....

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Sleepy Napoleon.

Kenneth Walden, Almost Every Work of Art is a Failure - PhilPapers It is a constitutive aim of a work of art to express a point of view, but points of view are only had by persons. From this it follows that all ...

A paper: Art is trying to do something profound. Alas, it can't.

philpapers.org/rec/WALAEW

This is very wonderful.

Fat Garfield

Schelling

That plus "brute fact" will make her live forever.

Kenneth Walden, The Poets of Our Lives - PhilArchive This article proposes a role for aesthetic judgment in our practical thought. The role is related to those moments when practical reason seems to give out, when it fails to yield ...

A paper on practical reason, its limits, and the possibility that aesthetic experience may help us overcome those limits.

philarchive.org/rec/WALTPO-98

Big reactions to my Mozart Death Bed posting yesterday. Back to the well:

Mozart on his deathbed.