WELLINGTON (AP).- Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton has died in New Zealand, his family said Wednesday. He was 66. Dutton, professor of philosophy at New Zealand’s Canterbury University, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but continued working until his health deteriorated rapidly a week ago and he died Tuesday, said his son, Ben. “I think that he has been an incredibly passionate advocate for ideas and truth and a wonderful father and husband,” Ben said. Dutton was widely known for his Arts & Letters Daily, a groundbreaking early aggregator featuring links to commentary on arts, literature and events. He established the site in 1998 and continued on as editor after selling it to the U.S.-based Chronicle of Higher Education the next year. London’s Guardian newspaper described it in 1999 as “the best website in the world.” Born in California on Feb. 9, 1944, Dutton was