The Dissenter
My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast.Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 900 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here.New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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#855 Luciano Floridi - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challe...
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#854 Naomi Oreskes - The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Gov...
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#853 Coralie Chevallier: The Psychological Effects of Living in Harsh and Unpred...
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#852 Oded Galor - The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
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#851 Alecia Carter: Thanatology, Animal Personality, Comparative Psychology, and...
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#850 James McCann - Maize and Grace: A History of Africa’s Encounter with a New...
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#849 Claudio Tennie: The Differences Between Ape Culture and Human Culture
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#848 Robert Sapolsky - Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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#847 Lydia Moland: 19th-Century German Philosophy, Hegel, and Abolitionism in th...
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#846 Michela Massimi: Perspectival Realism
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#845 Branko Milanović - Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the...
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#844 Hakwan Lau - In Consciousness We Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subje...
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#843 Émile Torres - Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Ann...
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#842 Kevin Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
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#841 Rebecca Tuvel: Feminism, Cultural Appropriation, Transracialism, and Animal...
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#840 Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Cohere...
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#839 Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone
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#838 Jana Gallus: The Psychology and Economics of Incentives
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#837 Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think
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#836 Sabine Nöbel: Social Learning, Mate Copying, and Culture from a Biological...
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#835 William Kelly: The Sociocultural Anthropology of Japan
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#834 Kristen Lindquist: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Emotions
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#833 Inês Hipólito: 4E Cognition, and Dynamical Approaches in Psychology/Cogniti...
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#832 Ursula Goodenough - The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and E...
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#831 Freddie deBoer: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
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#830 Émile Torres: The Philosophy of Effective Altruism and Longtermism
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#829 Susanna Schellenberg - The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evi...
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#828 Greger Larson: Animal Domestication and Human Evolution
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#827 Joseph Henrich: Cross-Cultural Research, Intelligence, Mating Systems, and...
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#826 Eric Funkhouser: The Signaling Functions of Beliefs, and Self-Deception
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#825 Mark Coeckelbergh - Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age o...
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#824 Valerie Fridland - Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad Engli...
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#823 Owen Flanagan: Against Happiness
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#822 Christian Miller: The Virtues of Generosity and Patience
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#821 Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters: Who Accepts Rape Myths, and Why?
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#820 Joseph Errington: The History of Linguistics, Colonialism, and Language Ide...
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#819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities...
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#818 Tibor Rutar: The Rise, Benefits, and Challenges of Liberal Democracies
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#817 Raymond Hames: Hunting, Mating Systems, Warfare, and Evolutionary Anthropol...
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#816 Gareth Leng - The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in...
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#815 Rebecca Sear: Demography, Family Structures, National IQs, and the Evolutio...
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#814 Christopher Ferrie - Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice fr...
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#813 Marissa Harrison - Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
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#812 Mélusine Boon-Falleur: The Impact of Resources on Psychology, and Climate C...
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#811 Elijah Millgram: Practical Reasoning and Ethics
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#810 Jeff McMahan: Threats to Academic Freedom, and the Journal of Controversial...
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#809 Luciano Floridi: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable...
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#808 Frederick Toates: Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
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