Denis Dutton (born February 9, 1944) is an academic, web entrepreneur and libertarian media commentator/activist. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com and cybereditions.com.
Dutton is from Los Angeles, California and was educated at the University of California Santa Barbara. He taught at seve...
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Denis Dutton (born February 9, 1944) is an academic, web entrepreneur and libertarian media commentator/activist. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com and cybereditions.com.
Dutton is from Los Angeles, California and was educated at the University of California Santa Barbara. He taught at several US universities before emigrating to New Zealand: the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Michigan–Dearborn. As of 2008 he is acting head of the Philosophy school at Canterbury
Dutton's book, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, was released in January, 2009. It proposes that the commonly held modernist view that art appreciation is culturally learned is wrong and that art appreciation stems first from evolutionary adaptions made during the Pleistocene.
Dutton is a passionate supporter of...
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