More to Read

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Chapters

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• 'David Livingstone Smith on dehumanization,' in Cherry, M. Unmute: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• '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.

• '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].

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Article​

• 'Thus spoke Jordan Peterson,' Foreign Policy (April 2018)

• 'Why we love tyrants,' Aeon (February 2018)

• '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].

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Blog Postings and Op-Eds

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• 'Anti-semitism is racism,' Philosophy Talk

• 'Sexy beasts,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Mind the gaps!' Philosophy Talk

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• 'The puzzle of the unconscious,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Freud's philosophical challenges,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Philosophical Freud,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'They're only lobsters,' Philosophy Talk

• 'Lessons from lobsters,' Philosophy Talk

• 'Donald Trump, dangerous speech, and the legacy of white supremacist terrorism,' The Dangerous Speech Project

• 'Failing successfully,' Philosophy Talk

• 'An antidote to bullshit,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Dark knowledge: a user's guide,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Dark knowledge?' Philosophy Talk

• 'Stories to think with,' Philosophy Talk

• 'Fatal attraction,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'The Puzzle of Possibility,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Of philosophy and basketball,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Getting rid of "racism,"' Philosophy Talk

• 'Hate! Hate! Hate!' Philosophy Talk

• 'Fighting hate is a losing battle,' Boston Globe

• 'Sadly, hate and bigotry do reflect American values,' Philadelphia Inquirer

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• 'Superpredators old and new,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Disability as metaphysical threat,' Discrimination and Disadvantage

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• 'The unnatural is the political,' Philosophy Talk

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• 'Truth and progress in philosophy,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'All machine and no ghost,' Philosophy Talk

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• Interview,  Blog of the American Philosophical Association.

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• 'Thinking about ideology,' Blog of the American Philosophical Association.

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• 'Descartes, Elizabeth, and my left foot,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'The mind-body problem: Dualism,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'Confessions of a Cassandra,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'From Socrates and psychoanalysis to Donald Trump,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'How Trump sells salvation,' New York Daily News, Feb. 24 2016.

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• 'The paradoxes of ideology,' Philosophy Talk.

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• 'The teleologist's dilemma: Life has no purpose,' Psychology Today.

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• 'Dehumanization, genocide, and the psychology of indifference,' Psychology Today.

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• 'Freud's cognitive revolution,' Psychology Today.

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• 'What does it mean to be human?' Psychology Today.

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• 'The roots of racism: What makes racism possible?' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 1: Introducing free will,' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 2: Can free will exist in a deterministic universe?' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 3: Nobody has free will. Suck it up.' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 4: Are your choices predetermined? Libertarianism,' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 5: Is free will a myth? The conceivability problem,' Psychology Today.

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• 'Free will 101, part 6: Freedom in a deterministic world. Compatibilism,' Psychology Today.

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Mass Media Interviews and Selected Mass Media Mentions

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• Interview (gaslighting), Everyday Health.

• 'Trump's dangerous dehumanization of the "other",' Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, August 14, 2018

• '‘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.

• 'Why calling Donald Trump an "animal" doesn't fix anything,' Katy Steinmetz, Time Magazine, May 19, 2018.

• '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.

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