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The Dissenter

Ricardo Lopes

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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.

Episodes (2341)

#409 Gordon Gallup: Orgasm, Sperm Competition, Mating Strategies, Self-Recogniti...

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Dec 25, 20201:23:02pending

#408 Victoria Dougherty: Writing Fiction, Religion, Politics, Comedy, and Intere...

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Dec 24, 20202:31:06pending

#407 Joseph LeDoux: The Deep History of Ourselves

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Dec 21, 20201:01:29pending

#406 Caleb Scharf: Life, on Earth and Elsewhere

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Dec 18, 20201:01:21pending

#405 Andrew Gallup: The Evolution of Aggression, and Yawning

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Dec 17, 202056:12pending

#404 Hanno Sauer: Ethics, Moral Realism, Moral Progress, and Human Rationality

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Dec 14, 20202:02:46pending

#403 Christopher Freiman - Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

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Dec 11, 20201:03:13pending

#401 Kristina Durante: Female Intrasexual Competition, and Consumer Choices

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Dec 7, 202059:53pending

#400 John Hoffecker - Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal

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Dec 4, 20201:18:20pending

#399 Niels Dingemanse: Ecology, Behavioral Plasticity, and Animal Personality

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Dec 3, 202057:38pending

#398 Stuart Russell: Human-Level AI, How Worried We Should Be About AI, and Its...

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Nov 30, 202052:21pending

#397 Gordon Burghardt: The Evolution And Function of Play

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Nov 27, 20201:09:20pending

#396 Jeff McMahan: Killing in War, and the Ethics of Veganism

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Nov 26, 20201:11:59pending

#395 Lisa Bortolotti: The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs

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Nov 23, 20201:08:44pending

#394 Chiara Marletto: Quantum Mechanics, Constructor Theory, Free Will, and Real...

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Nov 20, 202058:41pending

#393 Paul Bloom: Moral Development, Empathy, Pleasure and/in Pain

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Nov 19, 202050:17pending

#392 Christopher Ferguson: Violent Media and Its Effects, and How Madness Shaped...

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Nov 16, 20201:31:13pending

#391 Matthew Cobb: The Idea of the Brain

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Nov 13, 20201:13:00pending

#390 Justin Tosi - Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk

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Nov 12, 20201:03:44pending

#389 Robert Atkinson - Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business

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Nov 9, 20201:14:08pending

#388 Warren Brown: Neuroscience, Dualism, Emergentism, Science and Religion

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Nov 6, 20201:13:55pending

#387 Greg Eghigian: The History of Mental Illness and Psychiatry

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Nov 5, 20201:40:03pending

#385 Russell Warne - In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence

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Oct 30, 20202:10:05pending

#384 Robert Sapolsky: Behavior, Self-control, Morality, Primates, Humans, and Re...

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Oct 29, 202038:51pending

#383 Daniel Kruger: Life History Theory, Time Perspective, and Health

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Oct 26, 20201:02:55pending

#382 Howard Friedman - Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

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Oct 23, 202058:42pending

#381 Virgil Zeigler-Hill: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Romantic Love Styles

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Oct 22, 20201:17:22pending

#380 Gordon Pennycook: Analytic Thinking, Reasoning, and Fake News

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Oct 19, 20201:07:09pending

#379 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Close Relationships

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Oct 16, 202054:43pending

#378 Brian Hare: Survival of the Friendliest

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Oct 15, 202047:57pending

#377 Michael Taborsky: The Evolution of Altruism and Sexual Reproduction

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Oct 12, 20201:01:57pending

#376 Russell Warne: Standardized Tests, Critical Thinking and Creativity

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Oct 9, 20201:06:12pending

#375 Karenleigh Overmann: Cognitive Archaeology, Numeracy, and Language

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Oct 8, 20201:03:49pending

#374 Moshe Hoffman: Incentives, Preferences, and Reason

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Oct 5, 202056:33pending

#373 Melanie Mitchell: AI, Complex Systems, Human Cognition, and Algorithms

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Oct 2, 20201:04:31pending

#372 Thibaud Gruber: Primates, Tool Use, and Communication

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Oct 1, 20201:11:08pending

#371 Marc Bekoff: Ethology and Animal Conservation

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Sep 28, 20201:06:10pending

#370 Martie Haselton - Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones

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Sep 25, 202051:34pending

#369 Alberto Acerbi: Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age

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Sep 24, 202053:52pending

#368 Ian Tattersall: Human Evolution and Cognition

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Sep 21, 20201:11:33pending

#367 Christophe Heintz: Adaptive Cognition, Cognitive History, and Science

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Sep 18, 202057:05pending

#366 Ann Druyan - Cosmos: Possible Worlds

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Sep 17, 20201:02:08pending

#365 Dan McAdams: The Psychology of Donald Trump

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Sep 14, 20201:15:16pending

#364 Limor Raviv: Psycholinguistics, Child Development, and Language Acquisition

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Sep 11, 20201:21:35pending

#363 Nina Jablonski: The Evolution of Human Skin, and Racism

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Sep 10, 202051:27pending

#362 Manvir Singh: Shamanism, Witchcraft, Religion, and Music

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Sep 7, 20201:09:08pending

#361 Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World

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Sep 4, 20201:26:41pending

#358 Michael McCullough: The Kindness of Strangers

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Aug 27, 20201:53:57pending

#357 Elliott Sober: Group Selection, Altruism, and Multilevel Selection

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Aug 24, 20201:04:25pending

#356 David Haig: Genetics, Development, and Intragenomic Conflict

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Aug 20, 20201:01:16pending
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