The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1024 Episodes

  1. #442 Nathan Lents - Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

    Published: 3/12/2021

  2. #441 Francesca Minerva: Abortion, Cryonics, Lookism, and the Journal of Controversial Ideas

    Published: 3/11/2021

  3. #440 James Lenman: Ethics, Motives, Consequentialism, and Morality

    Published: 3/8/2021

  4. #439 Eric Kaufmann - Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

    Published: 3/5/2021

  5. #438 John Paul Wright: The Psychology of Criminal Behavior

    Published: 3/4/2021

  6. #437 Allan Horwitz: What's Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture

    Published: 3/1/2021

  7. #436 Gregg Caruso: Just Deserts, and Rejecting Retributivism

    Published: 2/26/2021

  8. #435 Ghristopher Kavanagh: Religion, Rituals, Belief in Japanese Society, and WEIRD Psychology

    Published: 2/25/2021

  9. #434 Thomas Coleman: The Psychology of Believers and Nonbelievers

    Published: 2/22/2021

  10. #433 Timothy Lenton - Revolutions that Made the Earth

    Published: 2/19/2021

  11. #432 Laith Al-Shawaf: Evolutionary Psychology, Just-so Stories, Anger and Disgust, and Culture

    Published: 2/18/2021

  12. #431 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction

    Published: 2/15/2021

  13. #430 David Lahti: Philosophy of Biology, Complex Traits, and Evolutionary Ethics

    Published: 2/12/2021

  14. #429 Andrew Berry: The History of Evolutionary Biology (Pt. 1)

    Published: 2/11/2021

  15. #428 Stanley Fish - There's No Such Thing as Free Speech

    Published: 2/8/2021

  16. #427 Arthur Glenberg: Embodied Cognition, Simulation, Mirror Neurons, and Education

    Published: 2/5/2021

  17. #426 Lyle Steadman: Society, Kinship, Tradition, Ancestor Worship, and Religion

    Published: 2/4/2021

  18. #425 Azar Gat - Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism

    Published: 2/1/2021

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    Published: 1/30/2021

  20. #424 Stefaan Blancke: Science, Pseudoscience, Rationality, and Cultural Evolution

    Published: 1/29/2021

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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.