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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   Athena Aktipis

   #94 Athena Aktipis: Cooperation and Conflict, From Cells to Human Societies · Jun 2019

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   Ava Devine

   #1192 Ava Devine: A Legend of the Sex Industry · Dec 2025

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   Avgi Saketopoulou

   #1052 Avgi Saketopoulou: Sexuality Beyond Consent · Jan 2025

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   Azar Gat

   #716 Azar Gat - Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars · 3 episodes

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   Barbara Webb

   #46 Barbara Webb: Embodied Cognition, AI, and the Study of Natural Cognition · Apr 2019

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   Bart Streumer

   #721 Bart Streumer: Metaethics, Moral Facts, Error Theory, and Moral (Anti)-Realism · Dec 2022

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   Bart Wilson

   #466 Bart Wilson - The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind · May 2021

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   Bear Braumoeller

   #459 Bear Braumoeller - Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age · Apr 2021

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   Bella DePaulo

   #947 Bella DePaulo - Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life · May 2024

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    Belén López-Pérez

    #767 Belén López-Pérez: Emotion Regulation, Emotion Goals, Happiness, and Empathy · 2 episodes

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    Bence Nanay

    #649 Bence Nanay: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Mental Representations, and Perception · Jul 2022

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    Benjamin Saltzman

    #1302 Benjamin Saltzman - Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture · Sep 2026

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    Bernard Reginster

    #915 Bernard Reginster - The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality · 2 episodes

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    Bernard Wood

    #333 Bernard Wood: Paleoanthropology, Human Systematics, And Human Evolution · May 2020

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    Bianca Acevedo

    #674 Bianca Acevedo: Attachment, Romantic Love, and Sensory Processing Sensitivity · Sep 2022

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    Blaine Fowers

    #1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue · Mar 2025

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    Blake Roeber

    #1133 Blake Roeber - Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan Political Climate · Aug 2025

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    Bo Winegard
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    Brad Duchaine

    #1146 Brad Duchaine: Face Perception, Prosopagnosia, and Prosopometamorphopsia · Sep 2025

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    Bradley Hillier-Smith

    #1251 Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees · May 2026

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    Breeze Oliver

    #1269 Breeze Oliver & Kerushi Drake: Destroying Every Manosphere Claim · Jun 2026

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    Brent Roberts

    #464 Brent Roberts: Continuity and Change in Personality, Conscientiousness, and Narcissism · May 2021

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    Brian Boyd

    #593 Brian Boyd - On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction · Feb 2022

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    Brian Hayden

    #334 Brian Hayden: Cultural Ecology, Feasting, Ritual Sanctuaries, And Funerals · May 2020

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    Brian Knutson

    #570 Brian Knutson: The Neuroscience of Emotions, and Economic Decision-Making · Jan 2022

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    Brian Lerch

    #1143 Brian Lerch: Same-Sex Sexual Behavior, Indiscriminate Sexual Behavior, Attachment, and Divorce · Jun 2025

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    Brian Talbot

    #1007 Brian Talbot: The End of Epistemology As We Know It · Oct 2024

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    Briana Pobiner

    #1038 Briana Pobiner: The Evolution of the Human Diet · Dec 2024

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    Brittany Andrews

    #1225 Brittany Andrews: How Policies Against Sex Work Reinforce Patriarchy and Misogyny · Mar 2026

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    Brooke Moore
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    Bryony Cole

    #304 Bryony Cole: The Future of Sex, Relationships, and Technology · Mar 2020

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    Cahal Moran

    #1096 Cahal Moran (Unlearning Economics): Why We’re Getting Poorer · May 2025

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    Caleb Everett

    #911 Caleb Everett - A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think · Mar 2024

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    Cara Ocobock

    #1020 Cara Ocobock: Can Women Hunt? · Nov 2024

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    Cari Goetz

    #478 Cari Goetz: Mate Preferences, Mate Value, the EEA, and Evolutionary Mismatch · Jun 2021

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    Carin Perilloux

    #98 Carin Perilloux: Perceiving Sexual Interest, Physical Attractiveness, Parent-Offspring Conflict · Jun 2019

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    Carl-Johan Palmqvist

    #1263 Carl-Johan Palmqvist: Semi-Secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond · Jun 2026

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    Carles Lalueza-Fox

    #1248 Carles Lalueza-Fox - Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves · 2 episodes

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    Carlos Fiolhais

    #204 Carlos Fiolhais: A Ciência, o Método Científico e a Pseudociência · Jul 2019

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    Carlton Patrick

    #231 Carlton Patrick: From Disgust To Legal Systems · Sep 2019

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