The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes

  1. #1064 Costica Bradatan - In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

    Published: 2/27/2025
  2. #1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood

    Published: 2/24/2025
  3. #1062 Nandita Bajaj: We Have an Overpopulation Problem

    Published: 2/21/2025
  4. #1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science

    Published: 2/20/2025
  5. #1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo em Portugal

    Published: 2/17/2025
  6. #1059 Christopher Hoyt: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Religion

    Published: 2/14/2025
  7. #1058 Marc Steen: Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

    Published: 2/13/2025
  8. #1057 Daniel Hoyer: Cliodynamics, Inequality, Elite Overproduction, and Revolution

    Published: 2/10/2025
  9. 7 Years + Support on Patreon

    Published: 2/8/2025
  10. #1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

    Published: 2/7/2025
  11. #1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology

    Published: 2/6/2025
  12. #1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

    Published: 2/3/2025
  13. #1053 Victoria Dougherty: The Best Story Ever Written?

    Published: 1/31/2025
  14. #1052 Avgi Saketopoulou: Sexuality Beyond Consent

    Published: 1/30/2025
  15. #1051 Mary Shenk: The Sexual Division of Labor, Kinship Systems, Fertility, & More

    Published: 1/27/2025
  16. #1050 David Henshall - Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators

    Published: 1/24/2025
  17. #1049 Thaís Pansani: H. sapiens in the Americas, and the Extinction of Megafauna

    Published: 1/23/2025
  18. #1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence?

    Published: 1/20/2025
  19. #1047 Paul Penn - The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your Degree

    Published: 1/17/2025
  20. #1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuchin Monkeys

    Published: 1/16/2025

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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.