The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes
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#729 Gregory Forth - Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
Published: 1/12/2023 -
#728 Filipe Nobre Faria: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism
Published: 1/9/2023 -
I Need Help
Published: 1/7/2023 -
#727 Robert Talisse: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Democracy, and Liberalism
Published: 1/6/2023 -
#726 Cristina Moya: Ethnic Categories, and Social Effects on Reproduction
Published: 1/5/2023 -
#725 Sarah Mathew: Human Sociality, Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Warfare
Published: 1/2/2023 -
#724 Lucia Melloni: Consciousness, Language, and Neuroplasticity
Published: 12/30/2022 -
#723 William Harris - Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Published: 12/29/2022 -
#722 Martin Lang: Rituals, Synchrony, Moralizing Gods, and the Study of Religion
Published: 12/26/2022 -
#721 Bart Streumer: Metaethics, Moral Facts, Error Theory, and Moral (Anti)-Realism
Published: 12/23/2022 -
#720 Patrick McNamara - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience: Decentering and the Self
Published: 12/22/2022 -
#719 Dimitris Xygalatas - Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Published: 12/19/2022 -
#718 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human Behavior (Pt. 2)
Published: 12/16/2022 -
#717 Allan Horwitz - DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible
Published: 12/15/2022 -
#716 Azar Gat - Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars
Published: 12/12/2022 -
#715 Lee Edelman - No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Published: 12/9/2022 -
#714 Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Published: 12/8/2022 -
#713 Lucy Cooke - Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Published: 12/5/2022 -
#712 Lionel Page - Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do
Published: 12/2/2022 -
#711 Daniel Williams: Beliefs, Rationalization Markets, Misinformation, and Motivated Cognition
Published: 12/1/2022
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.