David Livingstone Smith

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.[1] 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.[2]

Publications
  • Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious (Kluwer, 1999).
  • Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course (Karnac, 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).[3]
  • Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martins Press, 2011).[4]
  • "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).

See also

References
  1. Profile for Psychology Today
  2. UNE news 12/6/2012
  3. Review by Michael Bond, New Scientist, 29/08/07
  4. Review by David Berreby, New York Times, 4/3/2011
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