The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

975 Episodes

  1. #672 Michael Grenke - Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory over Nihilism

    Published: 9/1/2022
  2. #671 Victor Kumar - A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human

    Published: 8/29/2022
  3. #670 Steve Hamm - The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action

    Published: 8/26/2022
  4. #669 Stephen Darwall: Morality as Accountability, Moral Obligation, Rights, and Moral Psychology

    Published: 8/25/2022
  5. #668 Annie Wertz: How Children Learn About Plants; Core Knowledge, and Human Universals

    Published: 8/22/2022
  6. #667 Justin Gregg - If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Evolution, Animal Intelligence, and Human Stupidity

    Published: 8/19/2022
  7. #666 Luana Maroja: Gene Exchange, Adaptation, Speciation, and Phylogeography

    Published: 8/18/2022
  8. #665 Scott Grafton - Physical Intelligence; The Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

    Published: 8/15/2022
  9. #664 Summer Mengelkoch: Early Life Stressors, Life History, Physiology, and Decision-Making

    Published: 8/12/2022
  10. #663 Johannes Mahr: Episodic Memory, Imagination, and their Social Functions

    Published: 8/11/2022
  11. #662 Christopher von Rueden: Leadership and Hierarchy from an Evolutionary Perspective

    Published: 8/8/2022
  12. #661 Kristina Durante: The Career-Family Trade-Off for Modern Women, and Changing Gender Norms

    Published: 8/5/2022
  13. #660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating

    Published: 8/4/2022
  14. #659 Nick Chater & Morten Christiansen - The Language Game; Language as a Game of Charades

    Published: 8/1/2022
  15. #658 Todd Kashdan - The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

    Published: 7/29/2022
  16. #657 David Benatar - The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa’s Leading University in Decline

    Published: 7/28/2022
  17. #656 Tereza Capelos: The Psychology of Political Radicalization, Tolerance, and Reactionism

    Published: 7/25/2022
  18. #655 Anne Pisor: Studying Subsistence Societies, Long-Distance Relationships, and Climate Change

    Published: 7/22/2022
  19. #654 Russell Blackford: Religious Freedom, Atheism, Scientism, Nihilism, and Morality

    Published: 7/21/2022
  20. #653 Cas Soper - The Evolution of Life Worth Living: Why we choose to live

    Published: 7/18/2022

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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.