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TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html
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Denis Dutton is a visionary. He was among the first to realize that a website could be a forum for cutting-edge ideas, not just a way to sell things or entertain the bored. Today Arts and Letters Daily is the web site that I try the hardest not to visit, because it is more addictive than crack cocaine.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dutton09/dutton09_index.html
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Information about my first-semester beginners’ courses, Philosophy 110, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus and Classical Concepts of Beauty, can be accessed by clicking on the name of the course.Instead of Philosophy of Art, I’ll be offering a new second-year course, Philosophy 220, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. This is a course not just for philosophy majors, but for students all over the humanities and the natural and social sciences.If you are looking for information on my best-selling book, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, click here...
http://www.denisdutton.com/
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According to founder Denis Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal for "the kinds of people who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, who read Salon and Slate and The New Republic — people interested in ideas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_&_Letters_Daily
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John Horgan & Denis Dutton
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/17452
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Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010)[1] was a 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]
Denis Dutton was born in Los Angeles on 9 Feb 1944, as the second of four children of William and Thelma Dutton,[3] who were booksellers and founded what became Dutton's Books, a chain of independent bookstores.[1] He grew up in North Hollywood, graduated from North Hollywood High School,[3] 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.[1] Between taking these degrees, he went to India with the Peace Corps and learned to play sitar.[1] Dutton taught at several American universities, including the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Michigan–Dearborn, before emigrating to New Zealand.
Dutton started teaching at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, in 1984.[1] From 2008 to 2010 he was the Head of the Philosophy school in an unofficial capacity and acted briefly as Head of Humanities. At its December 2010 graduation ceremony, the University of Canterbury awarded Dutton a research medal for his work.[4]
Dutton is a passionate supporter of public radio. In the early 1990s he founded the lobby group The New Zealand Friends of Public Broadcasting in response to proposals to devolve New Zealand's two non-commercial public radio station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dutton
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The book was orginally published on January 1, 2009 in the United States and Canada by Bloomsbury Press. It was launched in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand on February 12, 2009 — the two-hundreth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin — by the Oxford University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608190552?ie=UTF8&tag=denisduttonco-20&link...
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Writing in Newsweek, James Q. Wilson advises: "Read Dutton's book: his masterful knowledge of art and his compelling prose make it a thing of beauty."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/185821/output/print
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The Atlantic Monthly has selected The Art Instinct as one of its top 25 new books of 2009. Chief critic Benjamin Schwarz complains that too many nonfiction titles these days are little more than padded magazine articles. He says he enjoyed The Art Instinct especially because it presents a complicated argument in a way that only a book can.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/books2009
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The Art Instinct is now in paperback with a new Afterword. Click on the image at right to get to the Amazon page for the paperback. We do love the new Fred Astaire cover. You can see a bigger view of it HERE (take a look!). The hardback with the sublime Frederick Church South American landscape on the dust jacket is still available for all sources.
http://theartinstinct.com/
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A new decade. An ongoing global financial crisis. It's a time to regroup, re-evaluate -- and then to dream. Dream big. Because the world of ideas has never mattered more. For TED2010 we've assembled a lineup of speakers whose ideas and ingenuity will thrill, enlighten and inspire. It's What the World Needs Now ...
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Session 9: Imagination. Friday, February 12, 2010, 14:15-16:00. Speakers: Temple Grandin (livestock handling designer, autism activist), Marian Bantjes (designer, illustrator, typographer), Denis Dutton (philosopher), and Raghava KK (artist).
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Temple Grandin is a Doctor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry in animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the Hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons.
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Marian Bantjes was born in 1963 and is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Bantjes has been honored with numerous awards and her work is now part of the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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Raghava KK is a self-taught artist, born in Bangalore, India in 1980. His work has spanned genres as widely disparate as painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance, and even his own wedding.
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