The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1024 Episodes

  1. #542 Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

    Published: 11/1/2021
  2. #541 Charles Foster - Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

    Published: 10/29/2021
  3. #540 Itai Yanai: The Society of Genes; Genome Evolution, Epigenetics, Health, and Gene Editing

    Published: 10/28/2021
  4. #539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

    Published: 10/25/2021
  5. #538 Stephen Gaukroger - The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay

    Published: 10/22/2021
  6. #537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics

    Published: 10/21/2021
  7. #536 James Pennebaker: Language Use, Writing, Personality, and Stories

    Published: 10/18/2021
  8. #535 Glenn Geher: Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education

    Published: 10/15/2021
  9. #534 Michael Huemer: Moral Realism, Ethical Intuitionism, and Veganism

    Published: 10/14/2021
  10. #533 Alexander Rosenberg: Scientism, Nihilism, and Atheism

    Published: 10/11/2021
  11. #532 Robert Paarlberg - Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat

    Published: 10/8/2021
  12. #531 Kyle Thomas: The Psychology of Common Knowledge

    Published: 10/7/2021
  13. #530 Jeremy DeSilva - A Most Interesting Problem; Darwin’s Descent of Man (150th anniversary)

    Published: 10/4/2021
  14. #529 David Pietraszewski: Modularity of Mind, Coalitional Psychology, and Politics

    Published: 10/1/2021
  15. #528 Rebecca Owens: Sex Differences in Mating Behavior, Male Psychology, and Body Modifications

    Published: 9/30/2021
  16. #527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated Societies

    Published: 9/27/2021
  17. #526 Jordan Moss: The Psychology of the Alt-right and the PC Authoritarians and Liberals

    Published: 9/24/2021
  18. #525 Brian Leiter: Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

    Published: 9/23/2021
  19. #524 Andrew Guess: Political Polarization, Misinformation, Fake News, and Digital Media Literacy

    Published: 9/20/2021
  20. #523 Roman Yampolskiy: AI, Security, Controllability, and the Singularity

    Published: 9/17/2021

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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.