
More Stuff to Read
Chapters
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"Dehumanization: the problem of humanity and the problem of monstrosity," In Kronfeldner, M. E. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization. London: Routledge, 2021.
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"David Livingstone Smith on dehumanization," in Cherry, M. Unmute: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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"How media makes, ignites, and breaks ideology," in Fox, C. and Sanders, J. (eds.) Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy. London: Routledge, 2018.
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"Manufacturing monsters: dehumanization and public policy," in D. Boonin (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. New York: Palgrave, 2018.
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"Naturalism," in A. Rosenberg & L. McIntyre (eds.) Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. New York: Routledge, 2017.
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"Aping the human essence: simianization as dehumanization," (with Ioana Panaitiu). In Wulf D. Hund and Charles W. Mills and Silvia Sebastiani (eds.), Racism Analysis Yearbook, Vol 6: Apes, Gender, Class, and Race. Berlin: Lit Verlag [2016].
Articles
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"Thus spoke Jordan Peterson," Foreign Policy (April 2018)
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"Why we love tyrants," Aeon (February 2018)
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"Freud the Philosopher," Aeon (August 2017)
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"A theory of creepiness," Aeon (September 2016)
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"Paradoxes of dehumanization," Social Theory and Practice 42(2): 416-433.
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"The essence of evil," Aeon (October 24, 2014).
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"Horror sanguinis," (with Ioana Panaitiu), Common Knowledge 22(1): 69-80 [2015].
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"Dehumanization, essentialism, and moral psychology," Philosophy Compass 9(11): 814-824 [2014].
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"Form and function in self-deception: a biological model," Sistemi Intelligenti , 3: 565-580 [2013].
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"Self-deception: a teleofunctional approach," Philosophia, 42(1):181-199 [2013].
Blogs and Op-Eds
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"The dehumanizing imagination," The Junkyard, November 3, 2021.
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I was a monthly blogger for Philosophy Talk from 2016 to 2020. My monthly essays can be found here.
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My 12 posts for the Psychology Today blog can be found here.
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"Srebreniza and Black lives matter," Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, July 30, 2020.
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"Donald Trump, dangerous speech, and the legacy of white supremacist terrorism," The Dangerous Speech Project, August 23, 2016.
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"Fighting hate is a losing battle," Boston Globe, August 29, 2017
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"Sadly, hate and bigotry do reflect American values," Philadelphia Inquirer, August 14, 2017.
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"Disability as metaphysical threat," Discrimination and Disadvantage blog.
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"Thinking about ideology,"Blog of the American Philosophical Association, March 30, 2017.
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Interview, Blog of the American Philosophical Association, December 16, 2016.
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"How Trump sells salvation," New York Daily News, Feb. 24 2016.
Selected Interviews and Mentions
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"Trump's dangerous dehumanization of the 'other',"Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, August 14, 2018
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"‘Like a dog’: Trump has a long history of using canine insults to dehumanize enemies,' Phillip Rucker, Washington Post, August 14, 2018
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"Ecology reminds us that we're all connected," Marina Schauffler, Maine Sunday Telegram, May 8, 2018.
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"Why calling Donald Trump an 'animal' doesn't fix anything," Katy Steinmetz, Time Magazine, May 19, 2018.
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"Trump and the risks of digital hate," Issie Lapowsky, Wired, Dec 2, 2017.
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"Beastly," Paul Bloom, New Yorker, Nov. 20, 20q7.
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"The race delusion: lies that divide us," Robert Benz, HuffPost, May 31, 2016.
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"Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America's newest political movement," Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, April 1, 2016.