David Livingstone Smith
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David Livingstone Smith (born 26 September 1953) is professor of philosophy at the University of New England. He gained his MA at Antioch University and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of London (Kings College) where he worked on the philosophy of psychology.[https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/david-livingstone-smith-phd Profile] for Psychology Today 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.UNE news 12/6/2012
On May 16, 2024, Smith and Kate Manne of Cornell University were co-awarded the 2024 Lebowitz Prize for an as-of-yet unpublished presentation titled "Dehumanization and its Discontents."{{Cite web |date=2024-05-16 |title=2024 Lebowitz Prize Awarded to Philosophers Kate Manne and David Livingstone Smith |url=https://www.pbk.org/2024-lebowitz-winners |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Phi Beta Kappa}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |date=2024-05-16 |title=UNE’s David Livingstone Smith earns prestigious award for contributions to philosophy discourse |url=https://www.une.edu/news/2024/unes-david-livingstone-smith-earns-prestigious-award-contributions-philosophy-discourse |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=University of New England |place=Biddeford, Maine |language=en}}
Publications
- Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious (Kluwer, 1999).
- Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course (Karnac, 1999).
- Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis (Rebus Press, 2nd ed., 1999).
- Psychoanalysis in Focus (Sage, 2002).
- Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (St. Martin's Press, 2004).
- The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War (St. Martin's Press, 2007).Review by Michael Bond, New Scientist, 29/08/07
- Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martins Press, 2011).[https://nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/review/Berreby-t.html Review] by David Berreby, New York Times, 4/3/2011
- "Beyond Good and Evil: Variations on Some Freudian Themes," in Bohart, A. et al. (eds.), Humanity’s Dark Side (APA Books, 2012).
- "War, evolution, and the nature of human nature," in Shackleford, T. (ed.), Oxford Companion to Evolutionary Approaches to War and Violence (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- "Indexically yours: why being human is more like being here than like being water," in Corby, R. H. A & Lanjouw, A. (eds.), The Politics of Species: Exploring the Species Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
- On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020).
See also
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External links
- [https://www.davidlivingstonesmith.com/ David Livingstone Smith's website]
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Category:University of New England (United States) faculty
Category:American philosophers
Category:20th-century American philosophers