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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)

Randy Thornhill Part 2: Parasite-Stress, Disgust, Religion, Values, and Speciati...

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Aug 5, 201955:24pending

#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Re...

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Aug 5, 20191:26:09pending

Randy Thornhill Part 1: Parasite-Stress, Culture, Politics, Sociality, and Perso...

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Aug 3, 201945:08pending

#211 Catherine Wilson: Epicureanism, Atomism, Materialism, And Modernity

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Aug 2, 20191:03:58pending

#128 Randy Thornhill: Parasite-Stress, Sociality, Values, Personality, and Polit...

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Aug 2, 20191:40:33pending

#127 Michael Graziano: Consciousness, From Animals To AI

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Aug 1, 201946:12pending

#210 Dwight Read: Cultural Kin Systems, And The Evolution of Human Sociality

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Aug 1, 20191:20:14pending

#125 Patrick Forscher: Implicit Bias, Stereotypes, and the Science Reform Moveme...

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Jul 30, 201954:42pending

Robert Plomin Part 2: Polygenic Scores, Clinical Psychology, and Gene Editing

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Jul 29, 201955:56pending

#209 Cecilia Heyes: Cultural Evolutionary Psychology, Imitation, And Mindreading

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Jul 29, 20191:18:47pending

Robert Plomin Part 1: Behavioral Genetics, Twins and Adoptees, and GWAS

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Jul 27, 20191:00:30pending

#124 Robert Plomin: Blueprint, Genetics, Environment, Clinical Psychology, and G...

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Jul 26, 20191:56:26pending

#208 David Wootton: History of Science, Philosophy, Politics, And Capitalism

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Jul 26, 201956:28pending

#207 Eugénia Cunha: Antropologia Biológica e Forense, e Evolução Humana

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Jul 25, 201957:19pending

#123 David Sloan Wilson: Evolution, Contextual Behavioral Science, Religion, and...

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Jul 25, 20191:06:02pending

#122 Mark Blyth: Austerity, The European Union, Inequality, and Global Trumpism

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Jul 24, 201938:00pending

#121 Alan Fiske: The Four Relational Models, Virtuous Violence, and Morality

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Jul 23, 201953:24pending

#120 Michael Bang Petersen: Evolution, Emotions, Groups, and Politics

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Jul 22, 20191:05:33pending

#206 Derek Leben: Ethics for Robots, Contractarianism, Self-Driving Cars

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Jul 22, 20191:06:32pending

Terrence Deacon Part 2: Consciousness, Semiotics, Symbolism and Language

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Jul 20, 201943:22pending

Terrence Deacon Part 1: Absence and Constraints, from Physics to Mental Phenomen...

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Jul 19, 201949:13pending

#205 Laura Cabrera: The Philosophy of Human Enhancement

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Jul 19, 201937:47pending

#204 Carlos Fiolhais: A Ciência, o Método Científico e a Pseudociência

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Jul 18, 20191:30:37pending

#119 Terrence Deacon: Incomplete Nature, from Physics to Mind

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Jul 18, 20191:32:35pending

#118 Lee Ross: Fundamental Attribution Error, Naïve Realism, and Politics

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Jul 17, 201941:25pending

#117 Wendy Johnson: Genetics and Environment in Personality and Intelligence

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Jul 16, 201950:09pending

#203 Gordon Ingram: Children's Social Development, And Cyberpsychology

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Jul 15, 201958:36pending

#116 Colin Holbrook: Threat Detection, Group Prejudice, Warfare, and Religion

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Jul 15, 201955:28pending

#115 Alexander Rosenberg: Theory of Mind, History, Mental Illusions, and Nihilis...

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Jul 13, 20191:00:45pending

#114 Hugo Mercier: The Enigma of Reason, Modularity, and Cognition

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Jul 12, 201933:29pending

#202 Arlindo Oliveira: O Presente e o Futuro da Inteligência Artificial

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Jul 12, 201954:22pending

#201 Mark Leary: The Self, Self-presentation, And Social Status

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Jul 11, 201951:06pending

#113 Joshua M. Tybur: Disgust, Evolution, Politics, and Social Psychology

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Jul 11, 201949:46pending

#112 Diane Halpern: Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Critical Thinking, a...

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Jul 10, 201948:25pending

#111 Nick Chater: The Mind Is Flat, and Our Illusions of Mental Depth

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Jul 9, 20191:07:07pending

#200 David Barash: Mysteries of Human Evolution, Sexuality, And Consciousness

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Jul 8, 20191:15:22pending

#110 Barbara Oakley: Evil Genes, and Pathological Altruism

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Jul 8, 201941:26pending

#109 Simon DeDeo: From Atoms to Societies, Emergentism and Reductionism

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Jul 6, 201959:54pending

#199 Clark McCauley: The Psychology of Political Radicalization

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Jul 5, 20191:30:04pending

Richard Shweder Part 2: Alan Fiske's Relational Models, Cultural Psychology, and...

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Jul 5, 201940:54pending

#198 Stephen Sanderson: Sociology, Darwinian Conflict Theory, And Religion

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Jul 4, 20192:02:23pending

Richard Shweder Part 1: Morality, and Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations

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Jul 4, 201954:32pending

#108 Richard Shweder: Morality, Haidt's Moral Foundations, and Multiculturalism

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Jul 3, 20191:35:27pending

#107 Frederick Crews: Why Freud is a Fraud

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Jul 2, 201956:17pending

#106 Michelle Sugiyama: The Evolution of Storytelling, and Its Role in Human Soc...

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Jun 29, 201954:27pending

#196 Peter Singer: Ethics, Veganism, And Effective Altruism

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Jun 28, 20191:08:37pending

#105 Françoise Baylis: The Ethics of CRISPR-cas9 Gene Editing Technology

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Jun 28, 201946:28pending

#195 Todd Shackelford: The Evolution and Varieties of Human Violence

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Jun 27, 20191:54:05pending

Michael Ruse Part 2: Race, Gene Editing, Religion and Science

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Jun 27, 201935:52pending

Michael Ruse Part 1: How Evolution by Natural Selection Works

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Jun 26, 201954:11pending
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