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Cognitive Dissidence

David Livingstone Smith

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“a philosopher seeking not just to interpret the world but to change it."
-- Stephen Wilson, Times Literary Supplement 

About Me

am professor of philosophy at the University of New England, in Maine. 

For the past two decades, my work has focussed on dehumanization, particularly in relation to race and genocide. I have written three books on this subject. The first is Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin's Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. The second, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. The third Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, won the Joseph B. Gittler Award for philosophy of the social sciences and was shortlisted for the Nayaf Al-Rodhan prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021.

I speak widely at both academic and non-academic settings, and my work has been featured extensively in the national and international media. I have been featured in several  television documentaries, and I am often interviewed for newspapers, magazines, podcasts, and radio. In 2012, in was a guest at the G20 economic summit, where I spoke on dehumanization and mass violence.

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