The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes
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#1005 Joshua May - Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science
Published: 10/11/2024 -
#1004 Lawrence Anton - Antinatalism: Birth, Death, Consent, and Extinction
Published: 10/10/2024 -
#1003 Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Published: 10/7/2024 -
#1002 Zion Lights: Extinction Rebellion, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, and Ethical Parenting
Published: 10/4/2024 -
#1001 Edward Hall: The Philosophy of Causation, and the Structure of Reality
Published: 10/3/2024 -
#1000 Karl Friston: The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference: From Physics to Mind
Published: 9/30/2024 -
#999 Tobias Gerstenberg: How We Think About Causality and Moral Responsibility
Published: 9/27/2024 -
#998 Timothy Weaver: Human Evolution, and the Interaction between Neanderthals and H. Sapiens
Published: 9/26/2024 -
#997 Sheri Berman: The History of the Left, Social Democracy, and Right-Wing Populism
Published: 9/23/2024 -
#996 Robin Gregory & Brooke Moore - Sorting It Out: Supporting Teenage Decision Making
Published: 9/20/2024 -
#995 Nadine Strossen: Defending Pornography
Published: 9/19/2024 -
#994 Louis Bachaud: Bad Science and Misogyny in the Manosphere
Published: 9/16/2024 -
#993 Peter Etchells - Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better)
Published: 9/13/2024 -
#992 Jerald Mosley - Sex Workers and Their Clients: In Their Own Words
Published: 9/12/2024 -
#991 Kostas Kampourakis - Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities
Published: 9/9/2024 -
6 Years and 1/2 + Support on Patreon (Goal: $920/Month)
Published: 9/7/2024 -
#990 Monte Johnson: Aristotle, Democritus, and Greco-Roman Philosophy
Published: 9/6/2024 -
#989 Robert Vinten: Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Published: 9/5/2024 -
#988 Iris Mauss: The Psychology of Emotion, and the Paradox of Seeking Happiness
Published: 9/2/2024 -
#987 Tuomas Tahko: Meta-Metaphysics, Fundamentality, and the Building Blocks of Reality
Published: 8/30/2024
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.