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)
#559 Thomas Metzinger: Consciousness, Subjectivity, the Self, and the Ethics of...
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#558 Justin Barrett - Thriving with Stone Age Minds; Evo Psych, Christian Faith,...
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#557 Stephen Fleming - Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness
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#556 Dan Sperber: Culture, Cultural Attraction Theory, Epistemic Vigilance, and...
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#555 Karen Kramer: Life History, Parenting, Population Growth, Dipersals, and Ma...
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#554 Felipe De Brigard: Memory, Imagination, and Free Will
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#553 April Bleske-Rechek: Gender Roles, Division of Labor, Occupation and Educat...
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#552 Kate Adamala: Synthetic Cells, Cell Evolution, the Origin of Life, and Astr...
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#551 Louise Barrett: Baboon Societies, Ecology, Embodied Cognition, and Evolutio...
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#550 Jonathan Zimmerman - Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn
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#549 Arvid Ågren: The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
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#548 Todd Shackelford: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
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#547 Alison Suen: Why It's OK to Be a Slacker
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#546 John Barry: Perspectives in Male Psychology (Pt.1) - Mental Health
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#545 Martin Puchner: Rotwelsch, The Language of Thieves, and the Nazi Regime
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#544 David M. G. Lewis: Evolution, Personality, Friendships, and Physical Attrac...
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#543 Orestis Palermos: Epistemology, Technology, Extended Cognition, and Philoso...
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#542 Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for...
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#541 Charles Foster - Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consc...
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#540 Itai Yanai: The Society of Genes; Genome Evolution, Epigenetics, Health, an...
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#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know
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#538 Stephen Gaukroger - The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay
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#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics
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#536 James Pennebaker: Language Use, Writing, Personality, and Stories
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#535 Glenn Geher: Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education
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#534 Michael Huemer: Moral Realism, Ethical Intuitionism, and Veganism
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#533 Alexander Rosenberg: Scientism, Nihilism, and Atheism
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#532 Robert Paarlberg - Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Gro...
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#531 Kyle Thomas: The Psychology of Common Knowledge
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#530 Jeremy DeSilva - A Most Interesting Problem; Darwin’s Descent of Man (150th...
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#529 David Pietraszewski: Modularity of Mind, Coalitional Psychology, and Politi...
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#528 Rebecca Owens: Sex Differences in Mating Behavior, Male Psychology, and Bod...
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#527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated Societ...
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#526 Jordan Moss: The Psychology of the Alt-right and the PC Authoritarians and...
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#525 Brian Leiter: Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
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#524 Andrew Guess: Political Polarization, Misinformation, Fake News, and Digita...
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#523 Roman Yampolskiy: AI, Security, Controllability, and the Singularity
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#522 Jaimie Krems: Female Friendships, Stereotypes, and Religion and Monogamy
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#521 Edward Watts - The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dange...
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#520 Agustín Fuentes: Race, Gender, Monogamy, and Darwin's Descent of Man (150th...
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#519 Douglas Fry: The Origins and Causes of War, and Peace Social Systems and Ho...
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#518 Andrew Berry: The History of Evolutionary Biology (Pt. 2) - Genetics, and S...
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#517 James Costa: Darwin, Wallace, The Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man...
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#516 Nichola Raihani - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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#515 Sacha Altay: Social Media, Fake News, Science Communication, and the COVID-...
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#513 Benjamin Friedman: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
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#512 Sander van der Linden: Social Media, Fake News, COVID, and Science Communic...
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#511 Cécile Sarabian: The Evolution of Disgust and Hygiene, and Conservation
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#510 David Buss - When Men Behave Badly; Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assau...
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#509 Christian Hoffmann: Social Media, Fake News, and Political Polarization
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