Review of T he Art Instinct

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (2):337-356 (2011)
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Denis Dutton died a day or two after Christmas in 2010. I had the good fortune to meet him in February 2010, when I participated in an Author-Meets-Critics session on The Art Instinct at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. (The Critical Notice that follows is a development of my comments there.) Dennis was a passionate, intelligent, influential, and well connected man, who had a vigorous philosophical mind, fully on display in The Art Instinct. Outside of academic philosophy, he was famous as founder of the Arts and Letters Daily, the pre-eminent content-aggregating blog for intellectuals. It is in that capacity that he was obituarised in many of the world’s leading English-language ..

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10.1353/cjp.2011.0008

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edition Matthen, Mohan (2011) "Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct. New York: Oxford University Press 2009. Pp. 278". Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41(2):337-356

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