The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes
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#1064 Costica Bradatan - In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
Published: 2/27/2025 -
#1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood
Published: 2/24/2025 -
#1062 Nandita Bajaj: We Have an Overpopulation Problem
Published: 2/21/2025 -
#1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science
Published: 2/20/2025 -
#1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo em Portugal
Published: 2/17/2025 -
#1059 Christopher Hoyt: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Religion
Published: 2/14/2025 -
#1058 Marc Steen: Ethics for People Who Work in Tech
Published: 2/13/2025 -
#1057 Daniel Hoyer: Cliodynamics, Inequality, Elite Overproduction, and Revolution
Published: 2/10/2025 -
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Published: 2/8/2025 -
#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory
Published: 2/7/2025 -
#1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology
Published: 2/6/2025 -
#1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life
Published: 2/3/2025 -
#1053 Victoria Dougherty: The Best Story Ever Written?
Published: 1/31/2025 -
#1052 Avgi Saketopoulou: Sexuality Beyond Consent
Published: 1/30/2025 -
#1051 Mary Shenk: The Sexual Division of Labor, Kinship Systems, Fertility, & More
Published: 1/27/2025 -
#1050 David Henshall - Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators
Published: 1/24/2025 -
#1049 Thaís Pansani: H. sapiens in the Americas, and the Extinction of Megafauna
Published: 1/23/2025 -
#1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence?
Published: 1/20/2025 -
#1047 Paul Penn - The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your Degree
Published: 1/17/2025 -
#1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuchin Monkeys
Published: 1/16/2025
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.