Kenny Walden's Website
I'm a philosopher. I teach at Dartmouth. I work on ethics, but so broadly construed that the word is nearly meaningless. At the moment I am particularly interested in aesthetic and creative elements of human agency and in the kinds of regard merited by the value of humanity.
Here you can find such vital items as philosophy papers and the location of my office.
Some things I have written:
"The poets of our lives", forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy. [PDF]
"Agency and aesthetic identity", forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. [PDF][pub. version]
"Holism about fact and value", forthcoming in Inquiry. [PDF][pub. version]
"Legislating taste", Philosophical Quarterly 73 (4): 1256-1280. 2023. [PDF][pub. version]
"Agency and normativity", Routledge Handbook of Agency, 2022. [pub. version]
"Great beyond all comparison", Rethinking the Value of Humanity edited by Sarah Buss and Nandi Theunissen. [PDF][pub. version]
"Kantian constructivism", Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason (with Julia Markovits), 2021. [PDF][pub. version]
"Incomparable numbers", Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 10, 2020. [PDF][pub. version]
"Reason and respect", Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 15, 2020. [PDF][pub. version]
"The sublime Clara Mather", in Portraits and Philosophy edited by Hans Maes, 2019. [PDF][pub. version]
"Reason unbound: Kant's theory of regulative principles", European Journal of Philosophy 27(3), 2019. [PDF][pub. version]
"Nature, agency, and the nature of agency", Philosophical Inquiries 6(2), 2018. [PDF][pub. version]
"Practical reason not as such", Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13(2), 2018. [PDF][pub. version]
"Morality, agency, and other people", Ergo, 5(3), 2018. [PDF][pub. version]
"Mores and morals: Metaethics and the social" in the Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, 2017. [PDF][pub. version]
"The relativity of ethical explanation", Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 6, 2016. [PDF][pub. version]
"Art and moral revolution", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73(3), 2015. [PDF][pub. version]
"The Euthyphro Dilemma", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90(3), 2015. [PDF][pub. version]
"The aid that leaves something to chance", Ethics 124(2), 2014. [PDF][pub. version]
"In defense of reflective equilibrium", Philosophical Studies 166(2), 2013. [PDF][pub. version]
"Laws of Nature, Laws of Freedom, and the Social Construction of Normativity", Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 7, 2012. [PDF][pub. version]
How to reach me:
I can be emailed at:
Kenneth.E.Walden@dartmouth.edu
My office is 309 Thornton Hall.
I do not know how to use a telephone.
