Kenny Walden

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Philosophy

I work on ethics, aesthetics, and agency. At the moment I am interested in various combinations of those issues: the ways that our aesthetic powers contribute to human agency, the role of creativity in moral thought, what is demanded by the special value of humanity, and the ways that social and historical conditions shape the normative landscape.

Personal Website

Contact

Kenneth.E.Walden@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-1692
Thornton, Room 309
HB 6035

Department(s)

Philosophy

Education

  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • A.B. Harvard College

Selected Publications

  • "Clarissa Dalloway and the Tragedy of Appreciation", European Journal of Philosophy.

  • "Creativity as a higher agency", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 110 (3), 2025.

  • "Almost every work of art is a failure", Philosophical Topics, 52 (1), 2024.

  • "The poets of our lives",  Journal of Philosophy 121(5), 2024.

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