David Livingstone Smith Ph.D.

About

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at the University of New England. He is author of eight books including the award-winning Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martins Press, 2011), and On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Books by David Livingstone Smith Ph.D.

Recent Posts

The Dehumanizing Mind

Dehumanization fuels the worst atrocities that human beings perpetrate on one another. Find out what it is and how it works.

Freedom in a Deterministic World

Why free will is no illusion after all.

Is Free Will a Myth?

If determinism is false, do we have free will?

The Roots of Racism

How the everyday concept of race lays the groundwork for racism.

Are Your Choices Predetermined?

Are our choices radically free, or are they caused by prior events?

Are our choices radically free, or are they caused by prior events?

Free Will 101: Part Three

Nobody has free will, and nobody is responsible for their behavior. Suck it up.

Nobody has free will, and nobody is responsible for their behavior. Suck it up.

Free Will 101: Part Two

Can free will exist in a deterministic universe?

Can free will exist in a deterministic universe?

Free Will 101: Part One

Does free will exist? The question of whether free will exists has been of interest to philosophers for more than two millenia.

Does free will exist? The question of whether free will exists has been of interest to philosophers for more than two millenia.

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

What are we saying when we say that someone is human?

What are we saying when we say that someone is human?

Freud's Cognitive Revolution

How Freud rejected the Cartesian approach to the human mind and started his own cognitive revolution.

How Freud rejected the Cartesian approach to the human mind and started his own cognitive revolution.