David Smith to speak at the Arcus Foundation in New York

The Arcus Foundation in New York City presents a conversation with David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., 91直播视频professor of philosophy, Sept. 30th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The program, titled "Less than Human: The Ethics of our Treatment of Others," is part of the 2013 Arcus Forums series. 

Joining Smith in dialogue will be Annette Lanjouw, VP of Arcus' Great Apes Program and highly-regarded author and primatologist, and Jay Michaelson, VP of Arcus' Social Justice Program and scholar of environmental and religious ethics. .

Smith was named the winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction for his 2011 book Less Than Human:  Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.  Other publications include The Most Dangerous Animal:  Human Nature and the Origins of War (2007) and Why We Lie:  The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (2004).

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