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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)

#68 Jerry Z. Muller: History and Philosophy of Capitalism

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#67 Martin Schaefer: The Right Way to Preserve Biodiversity

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#173 Belén López-Pérez: Cruel To Be Kind, Empathy, Emotion Regulation And Happin...

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#66 David Gorski: Science-Based Medicine, Fighting Quackery

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#65 Dale Purves: How Perception and Cognition Work

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#172 Joseph Carroll: Literary Darwinism, Postmodernism, And The Humanities

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Patricia Churchland Part 2: Self, Morality, Reductionism, Meaning of Life

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#171 Peter Smith: Bullying, Cyberbullying and Children's Development

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Patricia Churchland Part 1: Neurophilosophy, Epistemology, and Consciousness

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#64 Patricia Churchland: Neurophilosophy, Consciousness, Free Will, and Morality

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#63 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The Philosophy of Science, and The Science of P...

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#62 Lewis Goldberg: The Development and Scientific Relevance of the BIG FIVE

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#170 Steven Hales: Philosophy of Luck, Relativism and Perspectivism, And Evoluti...

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#61 Oliver Scott Curry: Morality as Cooperation, Moral Foundations

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#60 Fernanda Drumond (Gapminder): The Right Way to Look at Progress

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#59 Peter Kappeler: Sexual and Mating Dynamics in Primate Species, Human Univers...

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#168 Anthony Biglan: The Nurture Effect, Child Development, and Nurturing Societ...

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#58 April Bleske-Rechek: The Psychology of Friendship, Mate Selection, Modern Ps...

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Simon Blackburn Part 2: Moral Relativism, Free Will, and the Meaning of Life

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#167 Rani Lill Anjum: Philosophy of Causation, Scientific Models, And Medicine

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Simon Blackburn Part 1: The Sources of Ethics

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#56 Simon Blackburn: Metaethics, The Bases of Ethical Systems, Meaning of Life,...

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#166 Daniel Nettle: The Evolution of Personality, Individual Variation And Behav...

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Bradley Campbell Part 2: Issues with Sociology, Victimhood on the Right, the Alt...

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#165 Stephen Law: Naturalism, Liberalism, And The Religious And The Atheists

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Bradley Campbell Part 1: Culture of Victimhood, Its Historical Precedents and In...

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#55 Bradley Campbell: The Rise of Victimhood Culture, and Its Dangers on the Lef...

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Apr 16, 20191:54:44pending

#164 Herbert Gintis: Sociobiology, Game Theory, Cooperation, And Social Institut...

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Robin Hanson Part 3: Changing Behavior, Modern Life, Capitalism, Social Progress

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Robin Hanson Part 2: Hidden motives in Advertising, Charity, Education, and Medi...

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Apr 13, 201949:17pending

#163 Sarah Brosnan: Morality, Reciprocity, Fairness, And Property in Primates

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#54 Robin Hanson: The Elephant in the Brain, Selfishness and Prosociality, Socia...

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#162 Philip Goff: Materialism, Consciousness, And The Nature of Reality

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#52 Eric Turkheimer: Four Laws of Behavior Genetics, Gene-Environment Dynamics,...

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#161 Ian Gilligan: The Evolution of Clothing and Agriculture

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#51 James Flynn: Intelligence and IQ, the Flynn effect, group comparisons

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#50 Nancy Segal: Accidental Brothers, Twin Studies, Nature and Nurture, Epigenet...

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#49 Robert Boyd: Gene-culture Coevolution, Cultural Evolution

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#160 Richard Haier: The Neuroscience of Intelligence

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#48 Susan Pinker: The Sexual Paradox and The Village Effect

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#159 Ian Crawford: Astrobiology, Space Exploration, and Big History

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#47 Luís Ricardo: O Líder Charlatão, Líderes e Estilos de Liderança em Sociedade...

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Apr 3, 201939:06pending

#46 Barbara Webb: Embodied Cognition, AI, and the Study of Natural Cognition

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#45 Mark Schaller: Interpersonal Communication and Human Culture, The Behavioral...

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#158 Jay Belsky: Attachment, Child Development, And Child Maltreatment

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#43 Diana Fleischman: The Psychology of Disgust and Mate Selection

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#157 Gerard Saucier: Personality, The Big Five, The Big Six, and The Big Two

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#42 Ville Tulkki: Dispelling the Fear About Nuclear Energy

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#156 Samuel Andreyev: Innate and Acquired Aesthetic and Artistic Tastes

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#40 Frans de Waal: Morality, Sociality, and Culture in Primate Societies

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