The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes

  1. #1045 Will Gervais - Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species

    Published: 1/13/2025

  2. #1044 David Pinsof: The Psychology of Incentives and Opinions

    Published: 1/10/2025

  3. #1043 Rodolfo Dirzo: The Importance of Biodiversity, and the Sixth Mass Extinction

    Published: 1/9/2025

  4. #1042 Andrea Zagaria: Is Evolutionary Psychology a Scientific Revolution?

    Published: 1/6/2025

  5. #1041 Anna Puzio: Social Robots, Religious Robots, Transhumanism, and Digital Afterlives

    Published: 1/3/2025

  6. #1040 Luana Colloca: Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research

    Published: 1/2/2025

  7. #1039 Jonathan Bobaljik: Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, and Universal Grammar

    Published: 12/30/2024

  8. #1038 Briana Pobiner: The Evolution of the Human Diet

    Published: 12/27/2024

  9. #1037 John Hibbing: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Differences

    Published: 12/26/2024

  10. #1036 Roderick McIntosh: Archaeology, Urbanism, State Formation and Human Evolution in Africa

    Published: 12/23/2024

  11. #1035 L. Syd M. Johnson: Controversies About Brain Death

    Published: 12/20/2024

  12. #1034 Elise Zipkin: Population Dynamics, Biodiversity, and Climate Change

    Published: 12/19/2024

  13. #1033 Michael Levin: Self, Collective Intelligence, Cognition, Life after Death, & More

    Published: 12/16/2024

  14. #1032 Craig Callender: The Physics of Time

    Published: 12/13/2024

  15. #1031 Peter Lindert: How Government Social Spending Works

    Published: 12/12/2024

  16. #1030 Joel Marks: Are Moral Values Objective?

    Published: 12/9/2024

  17. #1029 J. Doyne Farmer - Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

    Published: 12/6/2024

  18. #1028 Sergio Almécija - Humans: Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts

    Published: 12/5/2024

  19. #1027 João Teixeira: The Evolution, Dispersals, and Interbreeding of Hominins

    Published: 12/2/2024

  20. #1026 Robert Borofsky: An Anthropology of Anthropology

    Published: 11/29/2024

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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.