The Dissenter

A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes

  1. #986 Sofia Forss: Neophobia, Curiosity, Intelligence, and Creativity in Apes and Humans

    Published: 8/29/2024
  2. #985 Philip Ball - How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

    Published: 8/26/2024
  3. #984 Andrew Khoury: Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Forgiveness

    Published: 8/23/2024
  4. #983 Vinod Goel - Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics

    Published: 8/22/2024
  5. #982 Joseph LeDoux - The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human

    Published: 8/19/2024
  6. #981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Was Freud Really a Scientist?

    Published: 8/16/2024
  7. #980 Geoff MacDonald: The Psychology of Single People

    Published: 8/15/2024
  8. #979 Camilla Nord - The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health

    Published: 8/12/2024
  9. #978 Sophie Scott-Brown: European Political Thought, Anarchism, and Steven Pinker's Progressivism

    Published: 8/9/2024
  10. #977 Susan Charles: How Well-Being Varies Across the Lifespan

    Published: 8/8/2024
  11. #976 Azim Shariff: Social Robots, Free Will, Rags-To-Riches Stories, and the Moralization of Effort

    Published: 8/5/2024
  12. #975 Gregory Retallack: Paleopedology, and the Link Between Life and the Soil

    Published: 8/2/2024
  13. #974 Robert Welshon: Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality

    Published: 8/1/2024
  14. #973 Jade d'Alpoim Guedes: Foraging, Agriculture, Crop Dispersal, and Climate Change

    Published: 7/29/2024
  15. #972 Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with Your Hands

    Published: 7/26/2024
  16. #971 Philip Cohen: Does It Make Sense To Talk About Generations?

    Published: 7/25/2024
  17. #970 Pedro Magalhães: Democracia e Participação Política em Portugal

    Published: 7/22/2024
  18. #969 Seth Robertson: Moral Realism and Anti-Realism, Confucian Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice

    Published: 7/19/2024
  19. #968 Mark Rank: How Chance and Luck Shape Our Lives and the World around Us

    Published: 7/18/2024
  20. #967 Channa Prakash: Gene Editing in Plants, GMOs, Organic Agriculture, and Environmental Activism

    Published: 7/15/2024

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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.