David Livingstone Smith
David Livingstone Smith is professor of philosophy at the University of [New England (United States)|University of New England]. He gained his MA at Antioch University and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of London where he worked on the philosophy of psychology. His research interests include self-deception, dehumanization, human nature, ideology, race and moral psychology. He won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction and was a speaker at the 2012 G20 Economic Summit at Los Cabos, Mexico.
On May 16, 2024, Smith and Kate Manne of Cornell University were co-awarded the 2024 Lebowitz Prize for an as-of-yet unpublished presentation titled "Dehumanization and its Discontents."
Publications
- Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious.
- Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course.
- Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis in Focus.
- Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind.
- The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.
- Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
- "Beyond Good and Evil: Variations on Some Freudian Themes," in Bohart, A. et al., Humanity’s Dark Side.
- "War, evolution, and the nature of human nature," in Shackleford, T., Oxford Companion to Evolutionary Approaches to War and Violence.
- "Indexically yours: why being human is more like being here than like being water," in Corby, R. H. A & Lanjouw, A., The Politics of Species: Exploring the Species Interface.
- On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.