The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes
1093 Episodes
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#491 Chiara Marletto - The Science of Can and Can't; The Physics/Science of Counterfactuals
Published: 7/5/2021 -
#490 Mark Stoneking: Evolutionary Genetics, The Mitochondrial Eve, and Out of Africa Migrations
Published: 7/2/2021 -
#489 David Potter - Disruption: Why Things Change
Published: 7/1/2021 -
#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation
Published: 6/28/2021 -
#487 Suzana Herculano-Houzel: The Evolution of the Human Brain, and Darwin's Descent of Man
Published: 6/25/2021 -
#486 Kevin Mitchell: Psychological Epigenetics, and Other Fads in Neuroscience
Published: 6/24/2021 -
#485 Joshua Glasgow - The Solace: Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life
Published: 6/21/2021 -
#484 David Bjorklund: How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution
Published: 6/18/2021 -
#483 Lauren Brent: The Evolution of Sociality, and Primate Societies
Published: 6/17/2021 -
#482 David Pearce: Transhumanism, The Hedonistic Imperative, and Abolishing Suffering
Published: 6/14/2021 -
#481 Saul Smilansky: 10 Moral Paradoxes
Published: 6/11/2021 -
#480 Vibeke Ottesen: The Evolution of Homicide, Filicide, and Neonaticide
Published: 6/10/2021 -
#479 James Cortada - Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America
Published: 6/7/2021 -
#478 Cari Goetz: Mate Preferences, Mate Value, the EEA, and Evolutionary Mismatch
Published: 6/4/2021 -
#477 Ilana Redstone - Unassailable Ideas, Social Media, and Discourse in American Higher Education
Published: 6/3/2021 -
#476 Edward Slingerland - Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Published: 5/31/2021 -
#475 Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Published: 5/28/2021 -
#474 Andrew Norman - Mental Immunity; Reason, Critical Thinking, Beliefs, and Morality
Published: 5/27/2021 -
#473 George Yancey: Racism in the US, and Anti-Christian Hostility
Published: 5/24/2021 -
#472 Aiyana Koka Willard: Religion, Cognition, Culture, and Human Universals
Published: 5/21/2021
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.