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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   Hal Whitehead

   #310 Hal Whitehead: The Sociality And Culture Of Whales · Mar 2020

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   Hanna Schleihauf

   #1217 Hanna Schleihauf: Other People's Beliefs, Belief Revision, and Good Reasoning · Feb 2026

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   Hannah Bradshaw

   #613 Hannah Bradshaw: Female beauty, Beautification, Luxury Products, and Food Choices · Apr 2022

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   Hans-Georg Moeller

   #564 Hans-Georg Moeller - The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality · Dec 2021

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   Heather Montgomery

   #96 Heather Montgomery: Social Anthropology of Childhood and Child Labor · Jun 2019

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   Hector Qirko

   #676 Hector Qirko: Human Cooperation, Altruism, Kinship, and Institutions · Sep 2022

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   Helen Steward

   #87 Helen Steward: Philosophy of Action, Free Will, Moral Responsibility · Jun 2019

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   Helena Miton

   #734 Helena Miton: Cognitive Science, Cultural Transmission, and Tacit Knowledge · Jan 2023

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   Henkjan Honing

   #638 Henkjan Honing: The Evolution, Cognition, and Neuroscience of Musicality and Music · Jun 2022

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    Henrik Høgh-Olesen

    #601 Henrik Høgh-Olesen - The Aesthetic Animal · Mar 2022

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    Henry Greely

    #456 Henry Greely - CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans · 2 episodes

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    Holger Wiese

    #325 Holger Wiese: The Psychology of Face Recognition · Apr 2020

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    Honorata Mazepus

    #948 Honorata Mazepus: Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and the European Union · May 2024

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    Hrishikesh Joshi

    #492 Hrishikesh Joshi: Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind · Jul 2021

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    Hugo Drochon

    #1286 Hugo Drochon: Elites and Democracy · Jul 2026

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    Ian Crawford

    #159 Ian Crawford: Astrobiology, Space Exploration, and Big History · Apr 2019

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    Ian Gilligan

    #161 Ian Gilligan: The Evolution of Clothing and Agriculture · Apr 2019

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    Ian James Kidd

    #1135 Ian James Kidd: What is Misanthropy? · Aug 2025

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    Ibo van de Poel
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    Iddo Landau

    #565 Iddo Landau: Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World · Dec 2021

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    Igor Grossmann

    #129 Igor Grossmann: Culture, Emotion Regulation, and Wisdom · Aug 2019

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    Ilana Redstone

    #477 Ilana Redstone - Unassailable Ideas, Social Media, and Discourse in American Higher Education · Jun 2021

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    Inês Hipólito

    #833 Inês Hipólito: 4E Cognition, and Dynamical Approaches in Psychology/Cognitive Science · 2 episodes

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    Isabella Sarto-Jackson

    #919 Isabella Sarto-Jackson: How Social Interactions Shape the Human Mind · Mar 2024

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    Itai Yanai

    #540 Itai Yanai: The Society of Genes; Genome Evolution, Epigenetics, Health, and Gene Editing · Oct 2021

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    Jaap de Roode

    #1179 Jaap de Roode - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves · Nov 2025

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    Jade d'Alpoim Guedes

    #973 Jade d'Alpoim Guedes: Foraging, Agriculture, Crop Dispersal, and Climate Change · Jul 2024

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    Jaime Edwards
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    Jakob Norberg

    #1175 Jakob Norberg: Schopenhauer's Politics · Nov 2025

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    James Cortada

    #806 James Cortada - Birth of Modern Facts; Information, Government, Business, and Science · 2 episodes

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    James Costa

    #517 James Costa: Darwin, Wallace, The Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man (150th anniversary) · Sep 2021

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    James Cresswell

    #868 James Cresswell: Theories in Psychology · Dec 2023

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    James Lee

    #879 James Lee: Behavior Genetics, Educational Attainment, IQ, and Alcohol and Tobacco Use · Dec 2023

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    James Lenman

    #440 James Lenman: Ethics, Motives, Consequentialism, and Morality · Mar 2021

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    James Tabery

    #142 James Tabery: The Nature-Nurture Debate, And Its Ethics · Feb 2019

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    James Tilley

    #1307 James Tilley & Sara Hobolt - Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain · Sep 2026

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    James Zimring

    #698 James Zimring - Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking · Oct 2022

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    Jana Gallus

    #838 Jana Gallus: The Psychology and Economics of Incentives · Sep 2023

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    Jared Rubin

    #802 Jared Rubin - How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth · Jun 2023

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    Jaroslava Valentova

    #1009 Jaroslava Valentova: Sexual Orientation, Gender Expression, and Physical Attractiveness · Oct 2024

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