David Smith interviewed about deception on the syndicated radio show The Scholars' Circle

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., 51品茶associate professor of philosophy, was a guest on the syndicated radio show The Scholars' Circle, which was broadcast on KPFK Radio Pacifica on Sunday, Feb. 3 and various other stations at other times. Beginning with the news of famed cyclist Lance Armstrong's lies about performance enhancement drugs, Smith, along with philosopher Sissela Bok and the psychologist Charles Ford, discussed theories about deception and lying. (which begins at 31:20).

Smith is the author of Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others, which was winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. 

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