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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   Niamh McLoughlin

   #648 Niamh McLoughlin: Child Social Development, Religion, Mental State Talk, and Group Affiliation · Jul 2022

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   Nic Bommarito

   #499 Nic Bommarito - Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life · Jul 2021

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   Nicholas Brown

   #923 Nicholas Brown: How to Spot Bad Science · Apr 2024

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   Nicholas Stang

   #291 Nicholas Stang: The Metaphysics, Epistemology, And Ethics of Kant · Feb 2020

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   Nicolas Jabko

   #1226 Nicolas Jabko - Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money · Mar 2026

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   Nicole Barbaro

   #451 Nicole Barbaro: Attachment Theory, Behavior Genetics, and Intimate Partner Violence · 2 episodes

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   Nicole Karlis

   #1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism · Jan 2026

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   Nicole Prause

   #1126 Nicole Prause: Pornography, NoFap, and Orgasm · 2 episodes

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   Niels Dingemanse

   #399 Niels Dingemanse: Ecology, Behavioral Plasticity, and Animal Personality · Dec 2020

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    Nikhil Chaudhary

    #1144 Nikhil Chaudhary: Cooperation, Social Learning, Breeding Systems, and Evolutionary Psychiatry · Sep 2025

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    Nikola Danaylov

    #131 Nikola Danaylov: The Singularity, Doing Futurism, and the Human Element · Aug 2019

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    Nima Bassiri

    #1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value · Aug 2026

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    Nina Hartley

    #1265 Nina Hartley: The Feminist Sexual Revolution, Women's Reproductive Rights, and Sexlessness · 2 episodes

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    Nina Jablonski

    #363 Nina Jablonski: The Evolution of Human Skin, and Racism · Sep 2020

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    Niruban Balachandran
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    Norbert Peeters

    #1134 Norbert Peeters: Botanic Philosophy, von Humboldt, Darwin, and Why Plants Matter · Aug 2025

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    Norman Sandridge

    #21 Norman Sandridge: Leadership, from Cyrus to Trump · Mar 2019

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    Nuno Lobo Antunes

    #77 Nuno Lobo Antunes: Novo Projeto de Lei do PAN, Metilfenidato e Atomoxetina, PHDA · May 2019

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    Nuno Pessoa Gil

    #1258 Nuno Pessoa Gil: Uma Conversa Honesta Sobre Suicídio e Eutanásia Com Um Psiquiatra · May 2026

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    Oliver Scott Curry

    #61 Oliver Scott Curry: Morality as Cooperation, Moral Foundations · Apr 2019

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    Oliver Traldi

    #937 Oliver Traldi - Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction · May 2024

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    Olivia Bentley

    #1180 Olivia Bentley: The Life of a Sex Worker and Misconceptions About It · Nov 2025

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    Olivia Reilly

    #1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuchin Monkeys · Jan 2025

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    Olivier Morin

    #686 Olivier Morin: How Traditions Live and Die · Oct 2022

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    Olof Gränström

    #23 Olof Gränström: Gapminder, Industrial Revolution, Violence Rates, Economic Inequality · Mar 2019

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    Olympia Campbell

    #1185 Olympia Campbell: Violence Against Women Across Societies · Dec 2025

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    Onurcan Yilmaz

    #798 Onurcan Yilmaz: Cognitive Styles, Politics, Morality, and Religion · Jun 2023

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    Orestis Palermos

    #543 Orestis Palermos: Epistemology, Technology, Extended Cognition, and Philosophical Engineering · Nov 2021

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    Oriel FeldmanHall

    #794 Oriel FeldmanHall: The Social Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making · Jun 2023

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    Orna Donath

    #1275 Orna Donath: Women Who Regret Having Children · Jul 2026

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    Paco Calvo

    #894 Paco Calvo - Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence · Feb 2024

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    Pascal Boyer

    #1120 Pascal Boyer: Ritualized Behavior, Ownership Psychology, and Victim-Devaluation · 2 episodes

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    Pasquale Raia

    #799 Pasquale Raia: The Impact of Climate Change on Evolution, and the Extinction of Species · Jun 2023

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    Patrick Colm Hogan

    #136 Patrick Colm Hogan: Evolution, Human Universals, Arts, and Literature · 3 episodes

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    Patrick Foote

    #1209 Patrick Foote - Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us · Jan 2026

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    Patrick Forscher

    #125 Patrick Forscher: Implicit Bias, Stereotypes, and the Science Reform Movement · Jul 2019

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    Patrick Hassan

    #1279 Patrick Hassan: An Open Conversation About Suicide with a Philosopher · 3 episodes

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    Patrick Lee Miller

    #684 Patrick Lee Miller: Plato vs. Nietzsche, Metaphysics, and Morality · 3 episodes

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    Patrick McNamara

    #720 Patrick McNamara - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience: Decentering and the Self · Dec 2022

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    Patrick Savage

    #694 Patrick Savage: Musicology, the Evolution of Music, and Cross-Cultural Studies · Oct 2022

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