Media cover David Smith's keynote address at Mizzou Diversity Summit

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, delivered the keynote address at the University of Missouri's Mizzou Diversity Summit on Oct. 29, 2012. The address was covered by the Missourian and the student newspaper The Maneater.

In his presentation, Smith spoke about the concept of dehumanization from his book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.

Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Less Than Human.

Smith is also the author of Why We Lie:  The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal:  Human Nature and the Origins of War.