He was the founder of Arts and Letters Daily, the intellectual epic center on the internet. The amount of education we all continue to reap from that one website alone can never be quantified. Thanks for everything and good bye Denis Dutton.
"Denis Dutton, the author, academic and philosopher who saw the Web as a place where intelligent ideas could flourish, has died in New Zealand at the age of 66, according to New Zealand news sources. Dutton was raised in Los Angeles and was the brother of booksellers Doug and Dave Dutton of the legendary Dutton's Bookstores in Los Angeles. Dutton was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His most recent book was 2009's "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution.
Dutton's work, contrary or inspiring, encouraged a multiplicity of ideas. "It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests," he said in a 2000 interview with Salon.com. "A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually."
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