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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   David Geary

   #30 David C. Geary: Folk Cognition, Sex Differences in Vulnerability, Children's Learning · Mar 2019

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   Paul Bloom

   #752 Paul Bloom - Psych: The Story of the Human Mind · 3 episodes

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   Khandis Blake

   #317 Khandis Blake: Evolution, Income Inequality, Female Competition, And Feminism · Apr 2020

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   Tania Reynolds

   #576 Tania Reynolds: Male Suffering, Female Same-Sex Relationships, and Moral Reactions to Covid-19 · 2 episodes

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   Victor Kumar

   #671 Victor Kumar - A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human · Aug 2022

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   David Puts

   #273 David Puts: Sexual Dimorphism, Sexual Orientation, And Female Orgasm · Dec 2019

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   Jaimie Krems

   #522 Jaimie Krems: Female Friendships, Stereotypes, and Religion and Monogamy · Sep 2021

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   Carole Hooven

   #494 Carole Hooven - T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us · Jul 2021

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   Randy Nesse

   #233 Randolph Nesse: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings · Sep 2019

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    Matthew Cobb

    #704 Matthew Cobb - As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age · 2 episodes

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    Catherine Salmon

    #256 Catherine Salmon: Evolutionary Psychology And Pop Culture · Nov 2019

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    Kristina Durante

    #661 Kristina Durante: The Career-Family Trade-Off for Modern Women, and Changing Gender Norms · 2 episodes

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    Douglas Kenrick

    #642 Douglas Kenrick & David Lundberg-Kenrick - Solving Modern Problems with a Stone-Age Brain · Jun 2022

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    Glenn Geher

    #535 Glenn Geher: Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education · 3 episodes

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    Steven Pinker

    #305 Steven Pinker: The Enlightenment, Cultural Evolution, and the Human Mind · Mar 2020

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    Stuart Russell

    #398 Stuart Russell: Human-Level AI, How Worried We Should Be About AI, and Its Present and Future · Nov 2020

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    Robert Plomin

    Robert Plomin Part 2: Polygenic Scores, Clinical Psychology, and Gene Editing · 3 episodes

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    Diana Fleischman

    #251 Diana Fleischman: Sex Robots, Technology, And The Future Of Human Relationships · 2 episodes

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    Sven Nyholm

    #312 Sven Nyholm - Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism · 2 episodes

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    Colin Wright

    #316 Colin Wright: Insect Personality, And The New Evolution Deniers · Apr 2020

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    Massimo Pigliucci

    #71 Massimo Pigliucci: The Philosophy of Pseudoscience · May 2019

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    Annie Duke

    #692 Annie Duke - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away · Oct 2022

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    Justin Tosi

    #390 Justin Tosi - Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk · Nov 2020

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    Heather Berlin

    #872 Heather Berlin: Impulsive and Compulsive Disorders, and the Study of Consciousness · Dec 2023

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    Nicholas Christakis

    #285 Nicholas Christakis: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society · Jan 2020

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    David Pearce

    #482 David Pearce: Transhumanism, The Hedonistic Imperative, and Abolishing Suffering · Jun 2021

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    Rachel Kleinfeld

    #250 Rachel Kleinfeld: A Savage Order; Decivilization, Dirty Deals, And Recivilization · Nov 2019

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    Michael Mann

    #1232 Michael Mann - Science Under Siege: The Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World · Mar 2026

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    Herman Pontzer

    #1163 Herman Pontzer: How to Understand Human Biological Variation: "Race", Height, Gender, and More · Oct 2025

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    Cat Bohannon

    #953 Cat Bohannon - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution · Jun 2024

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    Michael Huemer

    #1162 Michael Huemer - Progressive Myths · 2 episodes

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    Greger Larson

    #828 Greger Larson: Animal Domestication and Human Evolution · Aug 2023

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    Helen Fisher

    #185 Helen Fisher: The Anthropology Of Romantic Love, Attraction, And Attachment · Jun 2019

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    Jerome Kagan

    #278 Jerome Kagan: Temperament, Feelings, Emotions, and Personality · Jan 2020

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    Andy Clark

    #1003 Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality · Oct 2024

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    Barbara Tversky

    #455 Barbara Tversky - Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought · Apr 2021

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    David Benatar

    #1252 David Benatar - The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions · 4 episodes

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    Francesca Minerva

    #441 Francesca Minerva: Abortion, Cryonics, Lookism, and the Journal of Controversial Ideas · Mar 2021

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    Geoffrey West

    #819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies · Aug 2023

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    Jeff McMahan

    #1243 Jeff McMahan: Antinatalism, Extinctionism, Gene Editing, and Overpopulation · 5 episodes

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