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Denis Dutton
Denis Dutton at a February 2010 TED Conference in Long Beach, California
Born
Denis Laurence Dutton (1944-02-09)9 February 1944 Los Angeles, California, United States
Died
28 December 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 66) Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation
Academic, internet entrepreneur, and media commentator
Language
English
Nationality
American and New Zealander
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1966, PhD 1975)
Subjects
Art, evolution, and media
Notable works
Arts & Letters Daily
Spouse
Margit Stoll Dutton
(m. 1969)
Children
2
Website
denisdutton.com
Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010)[1] was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com, and cybereditions.com.[2]
^Fox, Margalit (31 December 2010). "Denis Dutton, Philosopher, Dies at 66". The New York Times.
^Ray Sawhill (3 November 2000). "The gleeful contrarian". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2008.
Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010) was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist. He was a professor...
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Art Museum, Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection Bloomington, Indiana Dutton, Denis, Tribal Art. In Michael Kelly (editor), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics....
groans and mutterings". Of a 1997 Helfgott recital in New Zealand, critic DenisDutton wrote, "If, as Goethe claimed, architecture is frozen music, David Helfgott...
theorists / philosophers Edmund Burke Joseph Carroll Daniel Dennett DenisDutton Thomas Hobbes David Hume Research centers/ organizations Center for Evolutionary...
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of humor as well as great knowledge and erudition. In an interview, DenisDutton asked Borges who were the "philosophers who have influenced your works...
April 15, 2000 "Barry Svrluga, National Pastime (2006), excerpted at". DenisDutton, The White House Press Correspondents' Dinner, Sunday Star Times (New...
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Machine to obtain the present value (Consumer Price Index for 2005). Dutton, Denis (2005). "Authenticity in Art". In Jerrold Levinson (ed.). The Oxford...
evolution of human intelligence in a relatively short period. Philosopher DenisDutton also argued that the human capacity for aesthetics evolved by sexual...
after the latter was launched in 1998 by her friend, DenisDutton. Hyde's company also worked with Dutton in 1998 to launch the Cybereditions e-book and print-on-demand...
bonding. Dissanayake, Joseph Carroll (Literary Darwinism 2004), and DenisDutton (The Art Instinct, 2009) all argue that the arts help organize the human...
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