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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Episodes (2341)
#956 Edward Watts - Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher
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#955 Elizabeth Pillsworth: The Anthropology of Partner Choice, Mating Systems, a...
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#954 Jonathan Matheson: Why It's OK Not to Think for Yourself
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#953 Cat Bohannon - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Ev...
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#952 Gwendolyn Dolske: Existentialism, Feminism, and Simone de Beauvoir
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#951 Shaun Gallagher: The Self and its Disorders
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#950 Zachary Garfield: An Evolutionary Take on Leadership, Reputation, and Confl...
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#949 Angarika Deb: The Anthropology of Fairness, Individual Preferences, and Gen...
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#948 Honorata Mazepus: Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and the European Union
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#947 Bella DePaulo - Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy...
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#946 Elizabeth Anderson: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers
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#945 Cristina Baciu: When and How E-Mentoring Works
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#944 Ann Pellegrini & Avgi Saketopoulou: Gender Without Identity
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#943 Hyrum Lewis - The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Mislea...
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#942 Fernanda Ferreira: Linguistics, Fluency, Speech Disfluencies, and Comprehen...
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#941 Anthony Volk: The Psychology of Bullying
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#940 Andrew Delton & Talbot Andrews - Climate Games: Experiments on How People P...
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#939 Michael Petraglia: The Origins and Migrations of H. Sapiens
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#938 Duncan Pritchard: Truth, and Cultivating Intellectual Virtues
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#937 Oliver Traldi - Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction
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#936 David Pietraszewski: Alliances, Intergroup Conflict, Politics, and the Scie...
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#935 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted
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#934 Gordon Ingram: Adolescent Use of New Media and Internet Technologies
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#933 Samuel Veissière: The Psychological Effects of the Internet, and Human Cogn...
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#932 Matti Häyry - Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Cor...
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#931 Michael Hudson: The Collapse of Antiquity
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#930 Rebecca Earle: The History and Politics of the Potato
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#929 Emily Qureshi-Hurst: God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime
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#928 Charles Roseman: The Evolution of Complex Traits, Hereditarianism, and Unde...
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#927 Paul Thagard - Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop I...
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#926 Michael Frank: Child Development and Language Acquisition
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#925 Amanda Podany: The History and Legacy of Mesopotamia
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#924 Stephanie Hare - Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Eth...
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#923 Nicholas Brown: How to Spot Bad Science
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#922 Stephen Grossberg - Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a...
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#921 Alva Noë - The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
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#920 Jean-Manuel Roubineau: The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
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#919 Isabella Sarto-Jackson: How Social Interactions Shape the Human Mind
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#918 Antoine Marie: The Biases of People with Strong Political and Moral Convict...
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#917 Dale Greenwalt - Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
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#916 Christian Hart - The Psychology of Lying, and How You Can Avoid Being Duped
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#915 Bernard Reginster - The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the...
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#914 Eduardo Fernandez-Duque: Mating Systems, Biparental Care, and Cooperative B...
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#911 Caleb Everett - A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in Ho...
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#910 Daniel Simons - Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about...
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#909 Paul Halpern: The Allure of the Multiverse
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#908 Joanna Malinowska: Race and Ethnicity in Science and Medicine, and Human-Ro...
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#907 Katarina Kovačević: Epistemic Responsibility and Strategic Ignorance
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#906 Suthan Krishnarajan: Regime Instability and Support for Democracy and Autoc...
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#905 David Pinsof: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems, Meaning of L...
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