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.
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#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory
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#1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in Scho...
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#1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meani...
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#1053 Victoria Dougherty: The Best Story Ever Written?
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#1052 Avgi Saketopoulou: Sexuality Beyond Consent
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#1051 Mary Shenk: The Sexual Division of Labor, Kinship Systems, Fertility, & Mo...
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#1050 David Henshall - Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Mas...
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#1049 Thaís Pansani: H. sapiens in the Americas, and the Extinction of Megafauna
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#1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence?
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#1047 Paul Penn - The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your D...
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#1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuc...
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#1045 Will Gervais - Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
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#1044 David Pinsof: The Psychology of Incentives and Opinions
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#1043 Rodolfo Dirzo: The Importance of Biodiversity, and the Sixth Mass Extincti...
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#1042 Andrea Zagaria: Is Evolutionary Psychology a Scientific Revolution?
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#1041 Anna Puzio: Social Robots, Religious Robots, Transhumanism, and Digital Af...
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#1040 Luana Colloca: Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research
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#1039 Jonathan Bobaljik: Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, and Universal Grammar
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#1038 Briana Pobiner: The Evolution of the Human Diet
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#1037 John Hibbing: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Difference...
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#1036 Roderick McIntosh: Archaeology, Urbanism, State Formation and Human Evolut...
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#1035 L. Syd M. Johnson: Controversies About Brain Death
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#1034 Elise Zipkin: Population Dynamics, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
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#1033 Michael Levin: Self, Collective Intelligence, Cognition, Life after Death,...
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#1032 Craig Callender: The Physics of Time
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#1031 Peter Lindert: How Government Social Spending Works
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#1030 Joel Marks: Are Moral Values Objective?
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#1029 J. Doyne Farmer - Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better W...
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#1028 Sergio Almécija - Humans: Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts
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#1027 João Teixeira: The Evolution, Dispersals, and Interbreeding of Hominins
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#1026 Robert Borofsky: An Anthropology of Anthropology
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#1025 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Femi...
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#1024 Matthew McManus: The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
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#1023 Francesca Bellazzi: Biochemical Kinds and Functions, Genes, and Virtue Eth...
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#1022 Vivek Venkataraman: Tree Climbing, Running, and Hunting across Human Socie...
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#1021 Richard Wolff: Socialism, Marxism, and Trump's Second Term
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#1020 Cara Ocobock: Can Women Hunt?
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#1019 Réka Blazsek: Social Norms, Institutions, Ownership, and the Mental Health...
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#1018 Brian Leiter & Jaime Edwards: The Life and Ideas of Marx
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#1017 Erica Cartmill: The Evolution of Ape Gestures and Human Language
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#1015 Julia Hermann: The Ethics of Ectogestative Technology
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#1014 Walter Scheirer: A History of Fake Things on the Internet
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#1013 Aaron Lukaszewski: An Evolutionary Approach to Personality
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#1012 Lance Grande - The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions
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#1011 Will Storr - The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
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#1010 Michael Price: The Biocultural Evolution of Religion, and Universal Darwin...
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#1009 Jaroslava Valentova: Sexual Orientation, Gender Expression, and Physical A...
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#1008 Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior
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#1007 Brian Talbot: The End of Epistemology As We Know It
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#1006 Anna Alexandrova - Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantif...
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