1. Denis Laurence Dutton was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist.
13 Facts About Denis Dutton
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Denis Dutton was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Denis Dutton was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, on 9 February 1944, as the second of four children of William and Thelma Dutton, who were booksellers and founded what became Dutton's Books, a chain of independent bookstores.
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Denis Dutton grew up in North Hollywood, graduated from North Hollywood High School, and was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1966 and his PhD in philosophy in 1975.
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Denis Dutton started teaching at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, in 1984.
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Denis Dutton was a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal.
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The site, described as "the first and foremost aggregator of well-written and well-argued book reviews, essays, and other articles in the realm of ideas", features links to articles across the web about literature, art, science, and politics, for which Denis Dutton wrote pithy teasers.
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Denis Dutton served as executive director of Cybereditions, a print on demand publishing company he founded in 2000 which specializes in new and out-of-print copyright works, mostly of a scholarly nature.
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Denis Dutton wrote on authenticity in art and distinguished between nominal authenticity, in which a work of art is correctly attributed to its author rather than being a forgery, and expressive authenticity, where a work is a true expression of an individual's or a society's values and beliefs.
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Denis Dutton set out abbreviated versions of his theory in a 2009 Google Talk lecture and a 2010 TED talk.
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Denis Dutton argued that progress in the arts and sciences had declined, especially since around 1800.
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Denis Dutton supported "conservative ideas" and was a member of the Libertarian Party for some years.
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Denis Dutton was one of the founding members and first chair of the NZ Skeptics.