Kendall Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 993541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kendall Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kendall |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thoughtwriting -in Poetry and Music
Speechwriters compose speeches for others to deliver; speechwritings are speeches composed for this purpose. By thoughtwriters I mean writers who compose texts for others to use in expressing their thoughts (feelings, attitudes). The texts thoughtwriters compose are thoughtwritings . Poets are often plausibly regarded as thoughtwriters, and their poems as thoughtwritings. Music and musicmaking can frequently be understood in an analogous way. Thi…
On the (So‐called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
What has been called the ‘puzzle of imaginative resistance’, sometimes attributed to David Hume and discussed recently by Tamar Gendler and others, is actually a collection of related but distinct puzzles, none of them aptly described by that phrase. They include the aesthetic puzzle, in several varieties (Do moral failings of a work of art affect its aesthetic value?); the imaginative puzzle, which also divides into several (Why do we refuse to,…
Artists in the Shadows: Review of Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe
A Note on Mimesis as Make-Believe
On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe
Real Imaginings
Thoughtwriting -in Poetry and Music
Speechwriters compose speeches for others to deliver; speechwritings are speeches composed for this purpose. By thoughtwriters I mean writers who compose texts for others to use in expressing their thoughts (feelings, attitudes). The texts thoughtwriters compose are thoughtwritings . Poets are often plausibly regarded as thoughtwriters, and their poems as thoughtwritings. Music and musicmaking can frequently be understood in an analogous way. Thi…
On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe
A Note on Mimesis as Make-Believe
Artists in the Shadows: Review of Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe
A Note on Mimesis as Make-Believe
On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe
Real Imaginings
On the (So‐called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
What has been called the ‘puzzle of imaginative resistance’, sometimes attributed to David Hume and discussed recently by Tamar Gendler and others, is actually a collection of related but distinct puzzles, none of them aptly described by that phrase. They include the aesthetic puzzle, in several varieties (Do moral failings of a work of art affect its aesthetic value?); the imaginative puzzle, which also divides into several (Why do we refuse to,…
Thoughtwriting -in Poetry and Music
Speechwriters compose speeches for others to deliver; speechwritings are speeches composed for this purpose. By thoughtwriters I mean writers who compose texts for others to use in expressing their thoughts (feelings, attitudes). The texts thoughtwriters compose are thoughtwritings . Poets are often plausibly regarded as thoughtwriters, and their poems as thoughtwritings. Music and musicmaking can frequently be understood in an analogous way. Thi…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 works) · Art history (1 works)