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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Episodes (2341)
#807 Raymond Craib - Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from t...
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#806 James Cortada - Birth of Modern Facts; Information, Government, Business, a...
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#805 Lisa Yon: Elephant Welfare, Environmental Pollutants, and Zoonotic Pathogen...
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#804 Deborah Gordon: Ant Colonies, Distributed Intelligence, and Systems Without...
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#803 Lee Dugatkin - Power in the Wild, The Ways Animals Strive for Control over...
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#802 Jared Rubin - How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic...
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#801 Jeffrey Lees: Implicit Attitudes, Meta-Perceptions, Morality, and Political...
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#800 Daisy Dixon: Art as Speech, Artistic Hate Speech, and Immoral Artists
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#799 Pasquale Raia: The Impact of Climate Change on Evolution, and the Extinctio...
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#798 Onurcan Yilmaz: Cognitive Styles, Politics, Morality, and Religion
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#797 Evelina Fedorenko: The Neuroscience of Language
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#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions
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#795 Owen Flanagan - The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility
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#794 Oriel FeldmanHall: The Social Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making
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#793 Adam Bulley - The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
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#792 Justin Mogilski: Satisfaction and Maintenance in Monogamous and Non-Monogam...
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#791 Scott Claessens: Human Cooperation, Religiosity, and Cross-National Analyse...
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#790 Conor Cunningham: Theology, Nihilism, and Evolutionary Theory
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#789 Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
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#788 Alexander Bor: Online Political Hostily; and the Moralization and Political...
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#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How...
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#786 Vassilis Saroglou: The Psychological Traits of Religious People
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#785 Agustín Fuentes: The Origins of Patriarchy
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#784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
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#783 Kevin Dorst: Epistemology, Justified Beliefs, and Epistemic Modesty
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#782 Gillian Forrester: The Evolution of Handedness, Cerebral Lateralization, an...
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#781 R. Brian Ferguson - Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill?
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#780 Deborah Carr: Obesity, Disability, Healthcare, and Aging in America
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#779 Keelah Williams: Stereotypes, Perceptions of Criminal Behavior, and Friends...
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#778 Carles Lalueza-Fox - Inequality: A Genetic History
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#777 Gil Greengross: The Psychology of Humor, Laughter, and Comedians
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#776 Adina Roskies: Neuroimaging Studies, Neuroethics, and Free Will
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#775 Charles Fernyhough: Inner Speech, Imaginary Companions, and Auditory Halluc...
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#774 Andrew Buskell: Cultural Evolution, Cumulative Culture, and the Extended Ev...
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#773 Catarina Dutilh Novaes: Argumentation, Reason, and Disinformation
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#772 Joseph Uscinski: The Politics and Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
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#771 Jordi Camí & Luis Martínez - The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Mag...
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#770 Inês Hipólito: Enactive Cognition, Culture, Artificial Intelligence, and Di...
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#769 Eric Schwitzgebel: Beliefs, Introspection, Ethics Professors, and Women in...
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#768 Laurence Kirmayer - Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental...
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#767 Belén López-Pérez: Emotion Regulation, Emotion Goals, Happiness, and Empath...
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#766 Krister Bykvist: Metaethics, Population Ethics, and Antinatalism
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#765 Matteo Colombo: Philosophy, Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science, and...
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#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market...
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#763 Mitch Brown: Pathogen Avoidance, Mate Preferences for Facial Features, and...
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#762 Dean Buonomano: The Neuroscience of Time
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#761 Paul Katsafanas - Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Idea...
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#760 Jonathan Maynard - Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Poli...
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#759 Chad Orzel - A Brief History of Timekeeping; from Stonehenge to Atomic Cloc...
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#758 Eli Alshanetsky: Articulating a Thought
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