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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   Mauro Silva Júnior

   #961 Mauro Silva Júnior: The Evolutionary Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships · Jul 2024

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   Maurício Martins

   #82 Maurício Martins: Cérebro, Mente, Comportamento e Livre Arbítrio · May 2019

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   Max Beilby

   #320 Max Beilby: Evolutionary Organizational Psychology · Apr 2020

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   Max Krasnow

   #283 Max Krasnow: The Evolution of Cooperation, Punishment, Honesty, and Deterrence · Jan 2020

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   Maël Lemoine

   #1184 Maël Lemoine - Philosophy of Physiology: What is Disease, and What is Health? · Dec 2025

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   Melanie MacEacheron

   #650 Melanie MacEacheron: The Evolution of Motherhood, Marital Surname Change, and Feminism · Jul 2022

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   Melanie Meng Xue

   #340 Melanie Meng Xue: Economics And Gender In Imperial And Modern China · May 2020

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   Melinda Zeder

   #336 Melinda Zeder: Domestication, And The Origins and Dispersal of Agriculture · May 2020

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   Melissa Shew

   #1249 Melissa Shew: Women and Intellectual Joy · 2 episodes

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    Menelaos Apostolou

    #1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood · 3 episodes

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    Merlijn Olthof

    #897 Merlijn Olthof: A Complex Systems Approach to Psychopathology · Feb 2024

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    Michael Axelrod

    #1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology · Feb 2025

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    Michael Bang Petersen

    #120 Michael Bang Petersen: Evolution, Emotions, Groups, and Politics · Jul 2019

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    Michael Cholbi

    #1152 Michael Cholbi: The Philosophy of Death and Dying · Sep 2025

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    Michael Cook

    #1154 Michael Cook: A History of the Muslim World (Part 2) · 2 episodes

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    Michael Grenke

    #672 Michael Grenke - Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory over Nihilism · Sep 2022

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    Michael Gurven

    #1231 Michael Gurven - Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer · 2 episodes

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    Michael Petraglia

    #939 Michael Petraglia: The Origins and Migrations of H. Sapiens · May 2024

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    Michael Price

    #1010 Michael Price: The Biocultural Evolution of Religion, and Universal Darwinism · Oct 2024

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    Michael Taborsky

    #377 Michael Taborsky: The Evolution of Altruism and Sexual Reproduction · Oct 2020

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    Michael Wilson

    #1304 Michael Wilson: Chimpanzee Behavior, Ecology, Violence, and Human Warfare · Sep 2026

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    Michela Massimi

    #846 Michela Massimi: Perspectival Realism · Oct 2023

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    Michelle Montague

    #505 Michelle Montague: Mind, Phenomenology, Cognition, Perception, Consciousness, and Metaphysics · Aug 2021

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    Michelle Sugiyama

    #106 Michelle Sugiyama: The Evolution of Storytelling, and Its Role in Human Societies · Jun 2019

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    Miguel Farias

    #227 Miguel Farias: Mindfulness, Religion, And Scientific Faith · Sep 2019

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    Miguel Segundo Ortín

    #1124 Miguel Segundo Ortín & Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology · Jul 2025

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    Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

    #981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Was Freud Really a Scientist? · Aug 2024

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    Mona Simion

    #1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence? · Jan 2025

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    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

    #38 Monique Borgerhoff Mulder: Evolutionary Anthropology, Gender Roles, Sexual Selection · Mar 2019

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    Monte Johnson

    #990 Monte Johnson: Aristotle, Democritus, and Greco-Roman Philosophy · Sep 2024

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    Moshe Bar

    #673 Moshe Bar - Mindwandering; Mental Drift, Mood, and Creativity · Sep 2022

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    Musa al-Gharbi

    #463 Musa al-Gharbi: Academic Freedom, Trump and the 2016 Elections, and Political Polarization · Apr 2021

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    Mélusine Boon-Falleur

    #812 Mélusine Boon-Falleur: The Impact of Resources on Psychology, and Climate Change · Jul 2023

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    Nadav Klein

    #306 Nadav Klein: Reputation, Prosociality, Moral Character, and Lie Detection · Mar 2020

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    Nandita Bajaj

    #1229 Nandita Bajaj, Zachary Neal, and Jennifer Neal: Debunking Pronatalist Claims · 2 episodes

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    Naomi de Ruiter

    #895 Naomi de Ruiter - Toward a Process Approach in Psychology: Stepping into Heraclitus' River · Feb 2024

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    Nathan King

    #1256 Nathan King - The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life · May 2026

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    Nathan Lents

    #1213 Nathan Lents - The Sexual Evolution: Sex, Gender, and Mating · 2 episodes

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    Neal Hebert

    #1295 Neal Hebert: A Philosophical Analysis of Wrestling | WWE SummerSlam 2026 · 2 episodes

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    Neil Sinhababu

    #1297 Neil Sinhababu: Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence · Aug 2026

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