The Dissenter

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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Every guest on The Dissenter

1078 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Alexandra Plakias

   #869 Alexandra Plakias - Thinking Through Food; Metaphysics, Epistemology, Aesthetics, and Ethics · Dec 2023

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   Alison Suen

   #547 Alison Suen: Why It's OK to Be a Slacker · Nov 2021

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   Allan Horwitz

   #717 Allan Horwitz - DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible · 2 episodes

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   Alyssa Battistoni

   #1220 Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature · Feb 2026

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   Amalia Bastos

   #870 Amalia Bastos: Parrots, Dogs, Comparative Psychology, and Convergent Evolution · Dec 2023

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   Amanda Podany

   #925 Amanda Podany: The History and Legacy of Mesopotamia · Apr 2024

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   Amanda Sukenick

   #1262 Amanda Sukenick: Antinatalism, Extinction, The Right to Die, Eugenics, & More · Jun 2026

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   Amy Arnsten

   #857 Amy Arnsten: The Prefrontal Cortex, and How It Responds to Stress · Nov 2023

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   Amy Baldwin

   #1299 Amy Baldwin: Shameless Sex · Aug 2026

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    Amy McPhie Allebest

    #1293 Amy McPhie Allebest: Breaking Down Patriarchy · Aug 2026

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    Ana Drago

    #1171 Ana Drago - Oportunidade ou Maldição: A indústria do turismo em Portugal · Nov 2025

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    Andrea Zagaria

    #1042 Andrea Zagaria: Is Evolutionary Psychology a Scientific Revolution? · Jan 2025

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    Andreas Elpidorou

    #468 Andreas Elpidorou: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead us to the Good Life · May 2021

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    Andreas Jungherr

    #574 Andreas Jungherr: Online Political Discourse, Digital Media and Politics, and Misinformation · Jan 2022

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    Andrew Berry

    #518 Andrew Berry: The History of Evolutionary Biology (Pt. 2) - Genetics, and Speciation · 2 episodes

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    Andrew Buskell

    #774 Andrew Buskell: Cultural Evolution, Cumulative Culture, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis · Apr 2023

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    Andrew Delton

    #940 Andrew Delton & Talbot Andrews - Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster · 2 episodes

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    Andrew Gallup

    #405 Andrew Gallup: The Evolution of Aggression, and Yawning · Dec 2020

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    Andrew Guess

    #524 Andrew Guess: Political Polarization, Misinformation, Fake News, and Digital Media Literacy · Sep 2021

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    Andrew Khoury

    #984 Andrew Khoury: Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Forgiveness · Aug 2024

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    Andrew Piper

    #286 Andrew Piper: Data Science, Reading, And Literary Criticism · Jan 2020

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    Andrew Sayer

    #614 Andrew Sayer - Why We Can't Afford the Rich; Economic Inequality, And Where It Stems From · Apr 2022

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    Angarika Deb

    #949 Angarika Deb: The Anthropology of Fairness, Individual Preferences, and Gender Inequality · Jun 2024

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    Angela Potochnik

    #1112 Angela Potochnik - Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning · Jun 2025

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    Ann Pellegrini

    #944 Ann Pellegrini & Avgi Saketopoulou: Gender Without Identity · May 2024

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    Anna Alexandrova

    #1006 Anna Alexandrova - Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification · Oct 2024

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    Anna Bocca

    #1161 Anna Bocca: The Origins, Spread, and Failures of Neoliberal Capitalism · Oct 2025

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    Anna Puzio

    #1041 Anna Puzio: Social Robots, Religious Robots, Transhumanism, and Digital Afterlives · Jan 2025

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    Anna Vedel

    #194 Anna Vedel: Personality, Academia, Ageing, And The Gender Equality Paradox · Jun 2019

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    Anna Warrener

    #561 Anna Warrener: The Evolution of the Human Pelvis, Bipedalism, and Childbirth · Dec 2021

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    Anne Pisor

    #701 Anne Pisor: How Researchers Prepare for Fieldwork · 2 episodes

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    Annie Wertz

    #668 Annie Wertz: How Children Learn About Plants; Core Knowledge, and Human Universals · Aug 2022

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    Anthony Biglan

    #168 Anthony Biglan: The Nurture Effect, Child Development, and Nurturing Societies · Apr 2019

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    Anthony Volk

    #941 Anthony Volk: The Psychology of Bullying · May 2024

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    Antoine Marie

    #918 Antoine Marie: The Biases of People with Strong Political and Moral Convictions · 2 episodes

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    April Bleske-Rechek

    #553 April Bleske-Rechek: Gender Roles, Division of Labor, Occupation and Educational Choices · 2 episodes

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    Arlindo Oliveira

    #202 Arlindo Oliveira: O Presente e o Futuro da Inteligência Artificial · Jul 2019

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    Arthur Glenberg

    #427 Arthur Glenberg: Embodied Cognition, Simulation, Mirror Neurons, and Education · Feb 2021

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    Ashley Randall

    #1188 Ashley Randall: Sexual Minority and Gender-Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships · Dec 2025

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    Ashley Thomas

    #589 Ashley Thomas: Naïve Sociology, and How Children Think About Hierarchies and Social Relations · Feb 2022

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