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The Dissenter

Ricardo Lopes

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.

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1,321 episodes

  1. #1327 Tommy Blanchard: Decorative Neuroscience, and the Neuro-Grifters 1:05:19
  2. #1326 Christian Tryon: The Evolution of Homo Sapiens, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition 39:47
  3. #1325 Philip Ball - The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics 1:34:17
  4. #1324 Marlene Zuk - Outsider Animals: Learning from the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives 58:31
  5. #1323 Paula Lavigne: Mulheres Trans em Desportos Femininos 2:09:27
  6. #1322 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon 1:14:10
  7. #1321 Emily Towner: Social Isolation and Social Media Use in Adolescents 53:27
  8. #1320 Vibeke Ottesen: How the Media Deal with Criminal Cases 1:39:50
  9. #1319 Ricardo Paes Mamede - Política Industrial: Como os Estados Transformam as Economias 1:30:56
  10. #1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology 1:21:40
  11. #1317 Samuel Arbesman - The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date 1:06:50
  12. #1316 Casper Hesp: Active Inference, Affect, Culture, and Phenomenology 1:20:11
  13. #1315 Samantha Waite: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Death 1:22:32
  14. #1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History 1:20:33
  15. #1313 Ryan Burge: The Vanishing Church 48:17
  16. #1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological Traits 1:29:23
  17. #1311 Séamus Power - Inequality: A View from Manywheres 1:17:26
  18. #1310 George Boss: Marx and the Politics of Need 1:00:21
  19. #1309 Espen Hammer: Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche 1:34:45
  20. #1308 Stephen Vaisey: The Sociology of Morality and Political Beliefs 1:18:16
  21. #1307 James Tilley & Sara Hobolt - Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain 1:15:47
  22. #1306 Steve Keen: The Existential Risk of Climate Change, and the War in Iran 51:49
  23. #1305 Vanniall: Trans Women in the Sex Industry 52:04
  24. #1304 Michael Wilson: Chimpanzee Behavior, Ecology, Violence, and Human Warfare 1:03:04
  25. #1303 Charmaine Borg: Sexual Arousal, Sexual Disgust, and Sexual Dysfunction 42:11
  26. #1302 Benjamin Saltzman - Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture 1:06:33
  27. #1301 Suki Finn - What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought 1:07:38
  28. #1300 Jim Al-Khalili - On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick 1:06:50
  29. #1299 Amy Baldwin: Shameless Sex 1:03:41
  30. #1298 Rachel Steele: Humanizing Sex Workers 1:04:35
  31. #1297 Neil Sinhababu: Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence 48:26
  32. #1296 Carolyn Kraft: Discussing the Ethics and Legality of Sex Work 1:44:12
  33. #1295 Neal Hebert: A Philosophical Analysis of Wrestling | WWE SummerSlam 2026 1:52:15
  34. #1294 Harry Reis - How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most 1:15:02
  35. #1293 Amy McPhie Allebest: Breaking Down Patriarchy 1:29:02
  36. #1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value 1:20:58
  37. #1291 Christopher Kavanagh & Matthew Browne: Decoding the Gurus 1:41:38
  38. 8 and 1/2 Years of The Dissenter: I Need Your Support, Please 1:57
  39. #1290 Matthew Lindauer: The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts 1:23:30
  40. #1289 Wataru Toyokawa: Social Learning, Collective Decision-Making, and the Wisdom/Madness of Crowds 1:13:58
  41. #1288 Omer Bartov - Israel: What Went Wrong? 48:34
  42. #1287 Audun Dahl - Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing 1:05:49
  43. #1286 Hugo Drochon: Elites and Democracy 1:05:04
  44. #1285 Luke Kemp - Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse 1:06:06
  45. #1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation? 1:19:04
  46. #1283 Stijn Vanheule: Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy 56:24
  47. #1282 Turi Munthe - Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs 1:09:28
  48. #1281 Francesca Rossi: The Benefits and Risks of AI 36:24
  49. #1280 Rafael Ruiz: Is "Woke" Good, Actually? 50:56
  50. #1279 Patrick Hassan: An Open Conversation About Suicide with a Philosopher 1:17:56