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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)

#1106 Kevin Hong: Magic, Divination, and Dream Interpretation Across Societies

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#1105 Kostas Kampourakis - Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Sc...

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#1104 Vanessa Wills: Marx's Ethical Vision

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#1103 Paul Seabright - The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Pow...

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#1102 Mandi Astola: Character, Virtue, and Vice

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#1101 Laura Betzig - The Badge of Lost Innocence: A History of the West

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#1100 Jonathan Ichikawa: Epistemic Courage

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#1099 Manvir Singh - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

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#1098 Karen Stollznow - B*tch: The Journey of a Word

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#1097 Kostas Kampourakis: Debunking Myths and Falsehoods About Charles Darwin

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#1096 Cahal Moran (Unlearning Economics): Why We’re Getting Poorer

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#1095 Robert Krueger: Classification of Mental Disorders, and Mental Wellbeing

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#1094 Cody Moser: Collective Intelligence and Cultural Innovation

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#1093 Agustín Fuentes - Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary

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#1092 Mads Larsen: Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collap...

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#1091 Vlasta Sikimić: Cognitive Diversity in Science, and the Ethics of AI

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#1090 Daniel Conroy-Beam: How the Manosphere Misuses Evolutionary Psychology

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#1089 Alexander Thomas: The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism

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#1088 Karoline Wiesner: What Is a Complex System?

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#1087 Susie Gronski: Men's Sexual Health

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#1086 John Odling-Smee - Niche Construction: How Life Contributes to Its Own Evo...

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#1085 Joshua Glasgow - The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosm...

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#1084 Patrick Hassan: The Pilosophy of Suicide

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#1083 Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed Ame...

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#1081 Richard Wolff: Trump's Tariffs, Elon Musk, and the BRICS

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#1080 Tristan Rogers: Conservatism, Past and Present

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#1079 Christopher Federico: Political Preferences, Belief Systems, Collective Na...

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#1078 Debra Lieberman: The Psychology of Disgust, Gratitude, and Emotional Tears

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#1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue

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#1076 Elisabeth Bik: Scientific Integrity and Scientific Fraud

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#1075 Michael Cook: A History of the Muslim World (Part 1)

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#1074 Kevin Lala - Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation a...

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#1073 David Wolpert: History as a Stochastic Process

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#1072 Steven Heine: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Live...

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#1071 Marina García-Granero: Nietzsche, the Genealogical Method, the Death of Go...

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#1070 Cláudia Passos Ferreira: The Development of Consciousness and Morality

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#1069 Todd May: Should We Go Extinct?

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#1068 Kristen Ghodsee: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

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#1067 David Benatar - Very Practical Ethics: Engaging Everyday Moral Questions

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#1066 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle, Culture, 4E Cognition, and Physic...

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#1065 Daniel Williams: Is the Science of Misinformation Reliable?

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#1064 Costica Bradatan - In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

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#1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood

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#1062 Nandita Bajaj: We Have an Overpopulation Problem

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#1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science

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#1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo e...

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#1059 Christopher Hoyt: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Religion

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#1058 Marc Steen: Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

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#1057 Daniel Hoyer: Cliodynamics, Inequality, Elite Overproduction, and Revoluti...

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