The Dissenter
A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

1093 Episodes
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#986 Sofia Forss: Neophobia, Curiosity, Intelligence, and Creativity in Apes and Humans
Published: 8/29/2024 -
#985 Philip Ball - How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Published: 8/26/2024 -
#984 Andrew Khoury: Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Forgiveness
Published: 8/23/2024 -
#983 Vinod Goel - Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics
Published: 8/22/2024 -
#982 Joseph LeDoux - The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human
Published: 8/19/2024 -
#981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Was Freud Really a Scientist?
Published: 8/16/2024 -
#980 Geoff MacDonald: The Psychology of Single People
Published: 8/15/2024 -
#979 Camilla Nord - The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health
Published: 8/12/2024 -
#978 Sophie Scott-Brown: European Political Thought, Anarchism, and Steven Pinker's Progressivism
Published: 8/9/2024 -
#977 Susan Charles: How Well-Being Varies Across the Lifespan
Published: 8/8/2024 -
#976 Azim Shariff: Social Robots, Free Will, Rags-To-Riches Stories, and the Moralization of Effort
Published: 8/5/2024 -
#975 Gregory Retallack: Paleopedology, and the Link Between Life and the Soil
Published: 8/2/2024 -
#974 Robert Welshon: Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality
Published: 8/1/2024 -
#973 Jade d'Alpoim Guedes: Foraging, Agriculture, Crop Dispersal, and Climate Change
Published: 7/29/2024 -
#972 Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with Your Hands
Published: 7/26/2024 -
#971 Philip Cohen: Does It Make Sense To Talk About Generations?
Published: 7/25/2024 -
#970 Pedro Magalhães: Democracia e Participação Política em Portugal
Published: 7/22/2024 -
#969 Seth Robertson: Moral Realism and Anti-Realism, Confucian Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice
Published: 7/19/2024 -
#968 Mark Rank: How Chance and Luck Shape Our Lives and the World around Us
Published: 7/18/2024 -
#967 Channa Prakash: Gene Editing in Plants, GMOs, Organic Agriculture, and Environmental Activism
Published: 7/15/2024
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.