The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes
1093 Episodes
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#670 Steve Hamm - The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
Published: 8/26/2022 -
#669 Stephen Darwall: Morality as Accountability, Moral Obligation, Rights, and Moral Psychology
Published: 8/25/2022 -
#668 Annie Wertz: How Children Learn About Plants; Core Knowledge, and Human Universals
Published: 8/22/2022 -
#667 Justin Gregg - If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal; Evolution, Animal Intelligence, and Human Stupidity
Published: 8/19/2022 -
#666 Luana Maroja: Gene Exchange, Adaptation, Speciation, and Phylogeography
Published: 8/18/2022 -
#665 Scott Grafton - Physical Intelligence; The Relationship Between the Body and the Mind
Published: 8/15/2022 -
#664 Summer Mengelkoch: Early Life Stressors, Life History, Physiology, and Decision-Making
Published: 8/12/2022 -
#663 Johannes Mahr: Episodic Memory, Imagination, and their Social Functions
Published: 8/11/2022 -
#662 Christopher von Rueden: Leadership and Hierarchy from an Evolutionary Perspective
Published: 8/8/2022 -
#661 Kristina Durante: The Career-Family Trade-Off for Modern Women, and Changing Gender Norms
Published: 8/5/2022 -
#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating
Published: 8/4/2022 -
#659 Nick Chater & Morten Christiansen - The Language Game; Language as a Game of Charades
Published: 8/1/2022 -
#658 Todd Kashdan - The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
Published: 7/29/2022 -
#657 David Benatar - The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa’s Leading University in Decline
Published: 7/28/2022 -
#656 Tereza Capelos: The Psychology of Political Radicalization, Tolerance, and Reactionism
Published: 7/25/2022 -
#655 Anne Pisor: Studying Subsistence Societies, Long-Distance Relationships, and Climate Change
Published: 7/22/2022 -
#654 Russell Blackford: Religious Freedom, Atheism, Scientism, Nihilism, and Morality
Published: 7/21/2022 -
#653 Cas Soper - The Evolution of Life Worth Living: Why we choose to live
Published: 7/18/2022 -
#652 Steven Frank - Microbial Life History: The Fundamental Forces of Biological Design
Published: 7/15/2022 -
#651 Bernard Reginster - The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
Published: 7/14/2022
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.