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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   Jasmine Sherni

   #1205 Jasmine Sherni: Being Part of a Cultural Minority in the Sex Industry · Jan 2026

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   Jason Clarke

   #1199 Jason Clarke - Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception · Jan 2026

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   Jason Manning

   #562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction · 2 episodes

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   Javier Suárez

   #1145 Javier Suárez: Units of Selection in Evolution · Sep 2025

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   Jayashri Kulkarni

   #560 Jayashri Kulkarni: Women's Mental Health, Depression, and Clinical Research · Dec 2021

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   Jean-François Bonnefon

   #349 Jean-François Bonnefon: Morality, Machine Behavior, And Moral Machines · Jul 2020

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   Jean-Manuel Roubineau

   #920 Jean-Manuel Roubineau: The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic · Mar 2024

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   Jeanne Bovet

   #709 Jeanne Bovet: The Evolution of Female Attractiveness, and Parent-Offspring Conflict in Mating · Nov 2022

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   Jeffrey Barrett

   #332 Jeffrey Barrett: The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics · May 2020

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    Jeffrey Lees

    #801 Jeffrey Lees: Implicit Attitudes, Meta-Perceptions, Morality, and Political Polarization · Jun 2023

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    Jeffry Simpson

    #1257 Jeffry Simpson: Attachment Styles and Interpersonal Relationships · May 2026

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    Jennifer Church

    #611 Jennifer Church - Why It’s Ok to be of Two Minds · Apr 2022

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    Jennifer Lackey

    #588 Jennifer Lackey: The Epistemology of Groups; Groups Assertions, Groups Lies, and Responsibility · Feb 2022

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    Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

    #573 Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington: Evolutionary Psychology, Political Ideology, and Social Inequality · Jan 2022

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    Jennifer Vonk

    #97 Jennifer Vonk: Comparing Humans and Other Species, and Primate Cognition · Jun 2019

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    Jerald Mosley

    #992 Jerald Mosley - Sex Workers and Their Clients: In Their Own Words · Sep 2024

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    Jeremy DeSilva

    #883 Jeremy DeSilva - First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human · 2 episodes

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    Jeroen Hopster

    #867 Jeroen Hopster, Julia Hermann & Ibo van de Poel: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies · 2 episodes

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    Jessica Isserow

    #622 Jessica Isserow: Moral Hypocrisy, Moral Worth, Debunking Arguments, and Moral Nihilism · May 2022

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    Jessica Nowicki

    #858 Jessica Nowicki: The Evolution of Prosocial Behavior, Pair Bonding, and Empathy · Nov 2023

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    Jessica Pierce

    #153 Jessica Pierce: Animal Morality, Animal Ethics, and Veganism · Mar 2019

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    Joanna Malinowska

    #908 Joanna Malinowska: Race and Ethnicity in Science and Medicine, and Human-Robot Interactions · Mar 2024

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    Joanna Schug

    #288 Joanna Schug: Emotional Expressions, And Relational Mobility · Jan 2020

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    Joel Marks

    #1030 Joel Marks: Are Moral Values Objective? · 2 episodes

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    Joel Paris

    #566 Joel Paris: The Current State of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy · 2 episodes

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    Johannes Mahr

    #663 Johannes Mahr: Episodic Memory, Imagination, and their Social Functions · Aug 2022

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    John Baird Callicott

    #616 John Baird Callicott: Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, and Climate Change · Apr 2022

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    John Brooke

    #176 John Brooke: Environmental History, And The Anthropocene · May 2019

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    John Hoffecker

    #400 John Hoffecker - Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal · Dec 2020

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    John Odling-Smee

    #1086 John Odling-Smee - Niche Construction: How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution · Apr 2025

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    John Paul Wright

    #438 John Paul Wright: The Psychology of Criminal Behavior · Mar 2021

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    Jon Cogburn
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    Jon Entine

    #16 Jon Entine: Genetic Literacy Project, Bioengineering, GMOs, Chemophobia · Feb 2019

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    Jon Wisman

    #680 Jon Wisman - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology · Sep 2022

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    Jonas Olson

    #732 Jonas Olson: Ethics, Moral Error Theory, Abolitionism, Moral Nihilism, and Practical Philosophy · Jan 2023

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    Jonathan Bobaljik

    #1039 Jonathan Bobaljik: Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, and Universal Grammar · Dec 2024

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    Jonathan Ichikawa

    #1100 Jonathan Ichikawa: Epistemic Courage · May 2025

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    Jonathan Losos

    #1127 Jonathan Losos - Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution · Jul 2025

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    Jonathan Marks

    #302 Jonathan Marks: Origin Stories In The Science Of Human Evolution · Mar 2020

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    Jonathan Matheson

    #954 Jonathan Matheson: Why It's OK Not to Think for Yourself · Jun 2024

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