David Smith to present at MIT and UCLA

Associate Professor of Philosophy David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., on Feb. 16, 2013 will be speaking at a closed workshop on dehumanization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mass., sponsored by the Saxelab, DARPA, and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition as part of the Neuroscience and Social Conflict Initiative. Smith will discuss "why do we dehumanize others?"

In June, Smith will be speaking at a closed workshop on Security and Human Behavior at UCLA. This annual meeting is primarily attended by experts on cyber-security and anti-terrorism.

Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.