David Smith to discuss his new book on TV Azteca

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, is scheduled for an interview on June 25, 2011 with TV Azteca, Mexico's second largest television network,to discuss his most recent book, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others. The interview is expected to run this fall.

Smith is also the author of the Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War and Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind. Smith recently discussed his book Less than Human on NPR's Talk of the Nation and on WCSH6 TV's 207 news magazine.

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