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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#1005 Joshua May - Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science
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#1004 Lawrence Anton - Antinatalism: Birth, Death, Consent, and Extinction
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#1003 Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reali...
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#1002 Zion Lights: Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, and Ethical Parenting
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#1001 Edward Hall: The Philosophy of Causation, and the Structure of Reality
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#1000 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference: From Physics...
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#999 Tobias Gerstenberg: How We Think About Causality and Moral Responsibility
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#998 Timothy Weaver: Human Evolution, and the Interaction between Neanderthals a...
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#997 Sheri Berman: The History of the Left, Social Democracy, and Right-Wing Pop...
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#996 Robin Gregory & Brooke Moore - Sorting It Out: Supporting Teenage Decision...
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#995 Nadine Strossen: Defending Pornography
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#994 Louis Bachaud: Bad Science and Misogyny in the Manosphere
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#993 Peter Etchells - Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spen...
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#992 Jerald Mosley - Sex Workers and Their Clients: In Their Own Words
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#991 Kostas Kampourakis - Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic E...
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#990 Monte Johnson: Aristotle, Democritus, and Greco-Roman Philosophy
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#989 Robert Vinten: Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion
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#988 Iris Mauss: The Psychology of Emotion, and the Paradox of Seeking Happiness
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#987 Tuomas Tahko: Meta-Metaphysics, Fundamentality, and the Building Blocks of...
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#986 Sofia Forss: Neophobia, Curiosity, Intelligence, and Creativity in Apes and...
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#985 Philip Ball - How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
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#984 Andrew Khoury: Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Forgiveness
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#983 Vinod Goel - Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics
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#982 Joseph LeDoux - The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human
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#981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Was Freud Really a Scientist?
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#980 Geoff MacDonald: The Psychology of Single People
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#979 Camilla Nord - The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health
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#978 Sophie Scott-Brown: European Political Thought, Anarchism, and Steven Pinke...
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#977 Susan Charles: How Well-Being Varies Across the Lifespan
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#976 Azim Shariff: Social Robots, Free Will, Rags-To-Riches Stories, and the Mor...
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#975 Gregory Retallack: Paleopedology, and the Link Between Life and the Soil
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#974 Robert Welshon: Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality
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#973 Jade d'Alpoim Guedes: Foraging, Agriculture, Crop Dispersal, and Climate Ch...
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#972 Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with Your Hands
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#971 Philip Cohen: Does It Make Sense To Talk About Generations?
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#970 Pedro Magalhães: Democracia e Participação Política em Portugal
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#969 Seth Robertson: Moral Realism and Anti-Realism, Confucian Ethics, and Epist...
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#968 Mark Rank: How Chance and Luck Shape Our Lives and the World around Us
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#967 Channa Prakash: Gene Editing in Plants, GMOs, Organic Agriculture, and Envi...
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#966 Patrick Hassan: Nietzsche's Struggle Against Pessimism
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#965 Eleanor Scerri: The Origins and Dispersal of H. Sapiens
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#964 Steve Keen: Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down
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#963 Abraham Newman - Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Econo...
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#962 Lydia Moland: The Abolitionism and Feminism of Lydia Maria Child
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#961 Mauro Silva Júnior: The Evolutionary Psychology of Interpersonal Relationsh...
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#960 Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
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#959 Edgar Dubourg: The Psychological Foundations and the Cultural Evolution of...
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#958 Robin McKenna: Non-Ideal Epistemology
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#957 Adam Toon - Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism
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