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)
#757 Quentin Atkinson: Comparing Cultures, Climate Change, and Religion
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#756 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality, and the Interface Theory of Perce...
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#755 Alexandra Kalev - Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't
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#754 Jerome Wakefield: What is a Mental Disorder?; Depression, and Anxiety
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#753 R. Paul Thompson: Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
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#752 Paul Bloom - Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
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#751 Leslie Sponsel - Yanomami in the Amazon: Toward a more Ethical Anthropology...
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#750 Adam Rutherford - Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugeni...
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#749 Francesca Righetti: The Psychology of Close Relationships
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#748 Tereza Capelos: Ressentiment, Populism, Brexit, and the Role of Trust in Po...
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#746 Simon Baron-Cohen: Autism, Systemizing, Empathy, and Sex Differences
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#745 Christopher Ferguson - Catastrophe!; Why Good People Make Bad Situations Wo...
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#744 Sander van der Linden - Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and...
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#743 Vibeke Ottesen: The Evolution of Violence, and the Consequences of Banning...
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#742 Zoe Liberman: Infant Social Cognition, Social Categorization, Gossip, and R...
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#741 Marya Schechtman: The Philosophy of the Self and Personal Identity
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#740 Tibor Rutar - Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Econ...
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5 Years + Support (I Still Need Your Help)
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#739 Aaron Sell: The Evolution of Anger and Hatred, and Justice-Making Instituti...
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#738 Antoine Marie: Moral Convictions, Politics, Misinformation, and Conspiracy...
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#737 Christopher Burris - Evil in Mind: The Psychology of Harming Others
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#736 Todd Kashdan: The Psychology of Well-Being
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#735 Daniel Blumstein: Predator-Prey Research, Antipredator Behavior, and Conser...
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#734 Helena Miton: Cognitive Science, Cultural Transmission, and Tacit Knowledge
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#733 Andrew Knoll - A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapte...
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#732 Jonas Olson: Ethics, Moral Error Theory, Abolitionism, Moral Nihilism, and...
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#731 Clara Mattei - The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Pav...
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#730 Victoria Dougherty: Science and Literature, Character Development, Realism,...
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#729 Gregory Forth - Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a...
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#728 Filipe Nobre Faria: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism
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#727 Robert Talisse: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Democracy, and Liberalism
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#726 Cristina Moya: Ethnic Categories, and Social Effects on Reproduction
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#725 Sarah Mathew: Human Sociality, Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Warfare
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#724 Lucia Melloni: Consciousness, Language, and Neuroplasticity
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#723 William Harris - Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
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#722 Martin Lang: Rituals, Synchrony, Moralizing Gods, and the Study of Religion
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#721 Bart Streumer: Metaethics, Moral Facts, Error Theory, and Moral (Anti)-Real...
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#720 Patrick McNamara - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience: Dece...
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#719 Dimitris Xygalatas - Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth L...
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#718 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human...
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#717 Allan Horwitz - DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible
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#716 Azar Gat - Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars
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#715 Lee Edelman - No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
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#714 Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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#713 Lucy Cooke - Bitch: On the Female of the Species
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#712 Lionel Page - Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We D...
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#711 Daniel Williams: Beliefs, Rationalization Markets, Misinformation, and Moti...
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#710 Batja Mesquita - Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
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