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)
#709 Jeanne Bovet: The Evolution of Female Attractiveness, and Parent-Offspring...
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#708 Denis Tatone: Interpreting Giving and Taking Actions, and the Development o...
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#707 Renata Benavente: Saúde Mental, Psicogerontologia, Psicologia Forense e Jus...
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#706 Wiebke Bleidorn: Personality Change Across the Lifespan
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#705 Christian Miller - Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Vi...
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#704 Matthew Cobb - As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
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#703 Neil Levy - Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People
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#702 Eric Schniter: Skill and Knowledge Acquisition, and Trust-Based Interaction...
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#701 Anne Pisor: How Researchers Prepare for Fieldwork
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#700 Claudio Tennie: Tool Behaviors in Great Apes, Cultural Transmission, and Cu...
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#699 Kyle Fischer: Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology
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#698 James Zimring - Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking
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#697 John Allen Paulos - Who’s Counting?; Uniting Numbers and Narratives with St...
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#696 Ryutaro Uchiyama: Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability
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#695 Susana Monsó: How Animals Experience and Understand Death
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#694 Patrick Savage: Musicology, the Evolution of Music, and Cross-Cultural Stud...
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#693 Stuart Vyse - The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rati...
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#692 Annie Duke - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
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#691 Radu Umbreș - Living with Distrust: Morality and Cooperation in a Romanian...
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#690 Catherine Molho: Norms, Punishment, Moral Emotions, Disgust, and Interdepen...
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#689 Michael Tomasello - The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from L...
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#688 Christopher Krupenye: Primatology, Theory of Mind, False Beliefs, and Shari...
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#687 Kristopher Smith: Human Cooperation, Partner Choice, and Long-Distance Rela...
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#686 Olivier Morin: How Traditions Live and Die
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#685 Kim Sterelny - The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in...
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#684 Patrick Lee Miller: Plato vs. Nietzsche, Metaphysics, and Morality
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#683 Allen Buchanan - Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism
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#682 Daniel Willingham: Why Don't Students Like School?
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#681 Marjorie Prokosch: Harshness, the Immune System, and Climate Change
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#680 Jon Wisman - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ide...
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#679 Nick Enfield - Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and B...
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#678 Gilbert Herdt: The Anthropology of Sexual Orientation
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#677 Mahtab Jafari: The Truth About Dietary Supplements
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#676 Hector Qirko: Human Cooperation, Altruism, Kinship, and Institutions
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#675 David Sloan Wilson: Religion, Multilevel Selection, Group Selection, and De...
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#674 Bianca Acevedo: Attachment, Romantic Love, and Sensory Processing Sensitivi...
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#673 Moshe Bar - Mindwandering; Mental Drift, Mood, and Creativity
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#672 Michael Grenke - Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory over Nihilism
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#671 Victor Kumar - A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Mad...
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#670 Steve Hamm - The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
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#669 Stephen Darwall: Morality as Accountability, Moral Obligation, Rights, and...
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#668 Annie Wertz: How Children Learn About Plants; Core Knowledge, and Human Uni...
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#667 Justin Gregg - If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Evolution, Animal Intelligence,...
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#666 Luana Maroja: Gene Exchange, Adaptation, Speciation, and Phylogeography
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#665 Scott Grafton - Physical Intelligence; The Relationship Between the Body an...
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#664 Summer Mengelkoch: Early Life Stressors, Life History, Physiology, and Deci...
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#663 Johannes Mahr: Episodic Memory, Imagination, and their Social Functions
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#662 Christopher von Rueden: Leadership and Hierarchy from an Evolutionary Persp...
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#661 Kristina Durante: The Career-Family Trade-Off for Modern Women, and Changin...
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#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels)
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