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)
#609 Joel Marks: Morality, Amorality, Desirism, and Animal Ethics
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#608 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human...
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#607 Nicole Prause: Sex, Porn, and Addiction
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#606 Peter Sterling - What is health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Desi...
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#605 Frank McAndrew: Evolutionary Psychology, Gossip, Namesaking, and Aggression
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#604 George Sher - A Wild West of the Mind; The Morality of Nasty Thoughts
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#603 Daniel Kreiss: Digital Media, Political Campaigns, Journalism, and Partisan...
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#602 Sean Carroll - A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the P...
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#601 Henrik Høgh-Olesen - The Aesthetic Animal
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#600 Katherine Freese - The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
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#599 Joshua Tucker: Social Media, Politics, Echo Chambers, and Organizing Politi...
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#598 Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics
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#597 Talya Miron-Shatz - Your Life Depends on It; Medical Decision-Making
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#596 George Zarkadakis - Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Int...
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#595 Susan Fiske: Social Categorization, Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discriminat...
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#594 James Salzman - Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
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#593 Brian Boyd - On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
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#592 Rodolfo Leyva: Neoliberalism, Social Media, Fake News, and Political Polari...
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#591 John Petrocelli - The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
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#590 Thomas Costello: Authoritarianism on the Right and the Left, and Sexual Obj...
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#589 Ashley Thomas: Naïve Sociology, and How Children Think About Hierarchies an...
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#588 Jennifer Lackey: The Epistemology of Groups; Groups Assertions, Groups Lies...
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#587 Victoria Dougherty: Nihilism, Horror, Depression, Love, and Writing
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#586 Marianna Ganapini: Beliefs, Confabulations, Rationalizations, and AI System...
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#585 Philippe Rochat Moral Acrobatics: How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinkin...
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#584 William Glod: Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices
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#583 Peter Ditto: Motivated Reasoning, Morality, and Politics
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#582 Mary Beth Willard: Why It’s OK to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists
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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media
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#579 Valerie Hardcastle: The Self, Consciousness, Pain, and Abnormal Psychology
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#578 Drew Bailey: Educational Attainment, Educational Interventions, and Sex Dif...
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#577 Russell Gray: Language Evolution, Big Gods and Rituals, and Animal Cognitio...
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#576 Tania Reynolds: Male Suffering, Female Same-Sex Relationships, and Moral Re...
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#575 J. Michael Bailey: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Arousal, and Gender Identity
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#574 Andreas Jungherr: Online Political Discourse, Digital Media and Politics, a...
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#573 Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington: Evolutionary Psychology, Political Ideology, a...
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#572 Günter Wagner: Gene Regulation, Evolutionary Novelties, and the Evolution o...
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#571 Sónia Frota: Aquisição de Linguagem, Prosódia, o Baby Lab, e o Português
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#570 Brian Knutson: The Neuroscience of Emotions, and Economic Decision-Making
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#569 Andrew Thomas: Ovulation, Mate Preferences, and Mating Strategies
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#568 Şerife Tekin: Philosophy of Psychiatry, Mental Disorder, The Self, and Flou...
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#567 Chris Knight: The Cultural and Social Bases of Language
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#566 Joel Paris: The Current State of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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#565 Iddo Landau: Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
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#564 Hans-Georg Moeller - The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality
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#563 Robert Brooks Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Alg...
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#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction
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#561 Anna Warrener: The Evolution of the Human Pelvis, Bipedalism, and Childbirt...
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#560 Jayashri Kulkarni: Women's Mental Health, Depression, and Clinical Research
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