The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes
1024 Episodes
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#542 Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Published: 11/1/2021 -
#541 Charles Foster - Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Published: 10/29/2021 -
#540 Itai Yanai: The Society of Genes; Genome Evolution, Epigenetics, Health, and Gene Editing
Published: 10/28/2021 -
#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know
Published: 10/25/2021 -
#538 Stephen Gaukroger - The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay
Published: 10/22/2021 -
#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics
Published: 10/21/2021 -
#536 James Pennebaker: Language Use, Writing, Personality, and Stories
Published: 10/18/2021 -
#535 Glenn Geher: Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education
Published: 10/15/2021 -
#534 Michael Huemer: Moral Realism, Ethical Intuitionism, and Veganism
Published: 10/14/2021 -
#533 Alexander Rosenberg: Scientism, Nihilism, and Atheism
Published: 10/11/2021 -
#532 Robert Paarlberg - Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat
Published: 10/8/2021 -
#531 Kyle Thomas: The Psychology of Common Knowledge
Published: 10/7/2021 -
#530 Jeremy DeSilva - A Most Interesting Problem; Darwin’s Descent of Man (150th anniversary)
Published: 10/4/2021 -
#529 David Pietraszewski: Modularity of Mind, Coalitional Psychology, and Politics
Published: 10/1/2021 -
#528 Rebecca Owens: Sex Differences in Mating Behavior, Male Psychology, and Body Modifications
Published: 9/30/2021 -
#527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated Societies
Published: 9/27/2021 -
#526 Jordan Moss: The Psychology of the Alt-right and the PC Authoritarians and Liberals
Published: 9/24/2021 -
#525 Brian Leiter: Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Published: 9/23/2021 -
#524 Andrew Guess: Political Polarization, Misinformation, Fake News, and Digital Media Literacy
Published: 9/20/2021 -
#523 Roman Yampolskiy: AI, Security, Controllability, and the Singularity
Published: 9/17/2021
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.