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.
Episodes (2341)
#409 Gordon Gallup: Orgasm, Sperm Competition, Mating Strategies, Self-Recogniti...
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#408 Victoria Dougherty: Writing Fiction, Religion, Politics, Comedy, and Intere...
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#407 Joseph LeDoux: The Deep History of Ourselves
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#406 Caleb Scharf: Life, on Earth and Elsewhere
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#405 Andrew Gallup: The Evolution of Aggression, and Yawning
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#404 Hanno Sauer: Ethics, Moral Realism, Moral Progress, and Human Rationality
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#403 Christopher Freiman - Why It's OK to Ignore Politics
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#401 Kristina Durante: Female Intrasexual Competition, and Consumer Choices
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#400 John Hoffecker - Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal
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#399 Niels Dingemanse: Ecology, Behavioral Plasticity, and Animal Personality
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#398 Stuart Russell: Human-Level AI, How Worried We Should Be About AI, and Its...
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#397 Gordon Burghardt: The Evolution And Function of Play
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#396 Jeff McMahan: Killing in War, and the Ethics of Veganism
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#395 Lisa Bortolotti: The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs
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#394 Chiara Marletto: Quantum Mechanics, Constructor Theory, Free Will, and Real...
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#393 Paul Bloom: Moral Development, Empathy, Pleasure and/in Pain
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#392 Christopher Ferguson: Violent Media and Its Effects, and How Madness Shaped...
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#391 Matthew Cobb: The Idea of the Brain
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#390 Justin Tosi - Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
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#389 Robert Atkinson - Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business
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#388 Warren Brown: Neuroscience, Dualism, Emergentism, Science and Religion
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#387 Greg Eghigian: The History of Mental Illness and Psychiatry
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#385 Russell Warne - In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence
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#384 Robert Sapolsky: Behavior, Self-control, Morality, Primates, Humans, and Re...
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#383 Daniel Kruger: Life History Theory, Time Perspective, and Health
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#382 Howard Friedman - Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
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#381 Virgil Zeigler-Hill: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Romantic Love Styles
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#380 Gordon Pennycook: Analytic Thinking, Reasoning, and Fake News
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#379 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Close Relationships
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#378 Brian Hare: Survival of the Friendliest
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#377 Michael Taborsky: The Evolution of Altruism and Sexual Reproduction
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#376 Russell Warne: Standardized Tests, Critical Thinking and Creativity
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#375 Karenleigh Overmann: Cognitive Archaeology, Numeracy, and Language
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#374 Moshe Hoffman: Incentives, Preferences, and Reason
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#373 Melanie Mitchell: AI, Complex Systems, Human Cognition, and Algorithms
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#372 Thibaud Gruber: Primates, Tool Use, and Communication
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#371 Marc Bekoff: Ethology and Animal Conservation
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#370 Martie Haselton - Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones
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#369 Alberto Acerbi: Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age
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#368 Ian Tattersall: Human Evolution and Cognition
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#367 Christophe Heintz: Adaptive Cognition, Cognitive History, and Science
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#366 Ann Druyan - Cosmos: Possible Worlds
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#365 Dan McAdams: The Psychology of Donald Trump
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#364 Limor Raviv: Psycholinguistics, Child Development, and Language Acquisition
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#363 Nina Jablonski: The Evolution of Human Skin, and Racism
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#362 Manvir Singh: Shamanism, Witchcraft, Religion, and Music
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#361 Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World
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#358 Michael McCullough: The Kindness of Strangers
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#357 Elliott Sober: Group Selection, Altruism, and Multilevel Selection
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#356 David Haig: Genetics, Development, and Intragenomic Conflict
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