Continuing on...
What about Kendall L Walton the man?
Kendall Lewis Walton (1939) is an American philosopher, holding professorships in Philosophy at Charles Stevenson Collegiate and Art and Design at the University of Michigan.
Walton's significant contribution to philosophy is his theory of representation and is detailed in his book "Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts" first published in 1990. His theory, also known as the make-believe theory, looks to explain the nature and varieties of representation in the arts.
He has also written extensively about: photography as transparent; pictorial representation; fiction and aesthetics.
His CV is 13 pages long and makes for very interesting reading.
He was awarded an honorary degree 'Doctor of Letters' by the University of Nottingham, UK in 2005.
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