David Smith posts to Stanford blog and contributes book chapter

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE professor of philosophy, has a post titled "Is Being Human more like being a Weed than it is Like Being Water?" on the Stanford University Philosophy Talk website. Although the blog requires a subscription, you can read the post as a pdf.

Smith also contributed a chapter to the book The Politics of Species, published by the Arcus Foundation. His chapter is titled "Indexically yours: why being human is more like being here than like being water." Visit the book's website.

Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, which was winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction. Smith is also the author ofWhy We Lie:  The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal:  Human Nature and the Origins of War.