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)
#659 Nick Chater & Morten Christiansen - The Language Game; Language as a Game o...
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#658 Todd Kashdan - The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectiv...
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#657 David Benatar - The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa’s Leading U...
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#656 Tereza Capelos: The Psychology of Political Radicalization, Tolerance, and...
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#655 Anne Pisor: Studying Subsistence Societies, Long-Distance Relationships, an...
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#654 Russell Blackford: Religious Freedom, Atheism, Scientism, Nihilism, and Mor...
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#653 Cas Soper - The Evolution of Life Worth Living: Why we choose to live
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#652 Steven Frank - Microbial Life History: The Fundamental Forces of Biological...
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#651 Bernard Reginster - The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihili...
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#650 Melanie MacEacheron: The Evolution of Motherhood, Marital Surname Change, a...
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#649 Bence Nanay: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Mental Representatio...
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#648 Niamh McLoughlin: Child Social Development, Religion, Mental State Talk, an...
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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Natu...
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#646 Russ Shafer-Landau: Metaethics, and Moral Realism
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#645 Steven Churchill: Homo naledi, Australopithecus sediba, and Human Evolution
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#644 Mathias Clasen: The Psychology of Horror, Apocalyptic Stories, and Villains
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#643 Masahiro Morioka - Manga Introduction to Philosophy; Life, Death, Time, and...
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#642 Douglas Kenrick & David Lundberg-Kenrick - Solving Modern Problems with a S...
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#641 Robert Barton: The Evolution of the Primate Brain, The Visual Brain, and th...
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#640 Manvir Singh: Going Beyond the Nomadic-Egalitarian Model of Hunter-Gatherer...
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#639 Leonid Tiokhin: Producing Scientific Knowledge, and Improving the Social Sc...
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#638 Henkjan Honing: The Evolution, Cognition, and Neuroscience of Musicality an...
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#637 Lars Sandman: Ethics in Healthcare, Priority Settings, and End-of-Life Deci...
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#636 Dan Weijers: The Philosophy of Wellbeing and Happiness
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#635 Mattia Riccardi: Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology
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#634 Simon Garnier: Swarm Intelligence, Collective Decision-Making, and Human So...
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#633 Svetlana Rudenko: Music Perception and Cognition, Consciousness, and Synaes...
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#632 Dario Maestripieri: Human Nature, Individual Differences, Knowledge, and Co...
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#631 Laura Vowels: Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction, Sexual Values, and the...
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#630 Suki Finn: Epistemology of Logic, the Philosophy of Love, and the Metaphysi...
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#629 Robert Pennock - An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character o...
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#628 Branko Milanović: Capitalism, and Global Inequality
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#627 Tanya Luhrmann - How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible O...
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#626 Tanisha Fazal - Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of A...
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#625 Francesca Luberti: The Relationship Between Mating Strategies and Socio-pol...
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#624 David Leiser - How We Misunderstand Economics And Why It Matters
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#623 Leonard Newman: Self-concept, Wrongdoing, Attitudinal Ambivalence, and Plur...
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#622 Jessica Isserow: Moral Hypocrisy, Moral Worth, Debunking Arguments, and Mor...
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#621 Jack Symes - The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast; Philosophers on Consciousne...
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#620 John Barry - Perspectives in Male Psychology (Pt.2) - Education, Criminalit...
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#619 Philip Dwyer The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of...
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#618 Lee McIntyre - How to Talk to a Science Denier
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#617 Frans de Waal - Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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#616 John Baird Callicott: Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, and Climate Change
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#615 Mark Moffett - The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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#614 Andrew Sayer - Why We Can't Afford the Rich; Economic Inequality, And Where...
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#613 Hannah Bradshaw: Female beauty, Beautification, Luxury Products, and Food C...
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#612 Ralph Schroeder: Virtual Environments, Online Politics, Populism, and Big D...
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#611 Jennifer Church - Why It’s Ok to be of Two Minds
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#610 Dorothea Debus: Philosophy of Memory, and Mental Self-regulation
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