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

1079 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Patrícia Silva

   #1115 Patrícia Silva: Portugal in the 21st Century · Jun 2025

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   Paul Harris

   #796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions · Jun 2023

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   Paul Katsafanas

   #761 Paul Katsafanas - Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals · 2 episodes

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   Paul Penn

   #1047 Paul Penn - The Psychology of Effective Studying: How to Succeed in Your Degree · Jan 2025

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   Paul Pettitt

   #1278 Paul Pettitt: Human Mortuary Practices, and Other Animals' Awareness of Death · Jul 2026

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   Paul Seabright

   #1103 Paul Seabright - The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People · May 2025

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   Paul Smaldino

   #1008 Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior · Oct 2024

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   Paul Thagard

   #1236 Paul Thagard - Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: How Brains Build Consciousness · 2 episodes

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   Paul van Geert

   #885 Paul van Geert: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Developmental Psychology · Jan 2024

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    Paula Lavigne

    #1323 Paula Lavigne: Mulheres Trans em Desportos Femininos · Oct 2026

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    Paulo Castro

    #213 Paulo Castro: Philosophy of Quantum Physics, Pilot Wave Theory, And the EmDrive · Aug 2019

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    Paulo Gama Mota

    #192 Paulo Gama Mota: The History of Sexual Selection Theory, And Cultural Evolution · Jun 2019

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    Pedro Galvão

    #446 Pedro Galvão: Três Diálogos Sobre a Morte · 2 episodes

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    Pedro Magalhães

    #970 Pedro Magalhães: Democracia e Participação Política em Portugal · Jul 2024

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    Peter Carruthers

    #69 Peter Carruthers: Innate Human Cognition · May 2019

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    Peter Descioli

    #221 Peter Descioli: The Evolution of Morality, Moral Judgment, And Common Knowledge · Aug 2019

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    Peter Ditto

    #583 Peter Ditto: Motivated Reasoning, Morality, and Politics · Feb 2022

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    Peter Jonason

    #346 Peter Jonason: Mating, The Dark Triad, Booty Calls, And Evo Psych · Jun 2020

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    Peter Kappeler

    #59 Peter Kappeler: Sexual and Mating Dynamics in Primate Species, Human Universals · Apr 2019

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    Peter Lindert

    #1031 Peter Lindert: How Government Social Spending Works · Dec 2024

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    Peter Sterling

    #606 Peter Sterling - What is health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design (Pt. 1) · Mar 2022

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    Peter Ungar

    #272 Peter Ungar: The Evolution Of Teeth, And Our Diet · Dec 2019

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    Philip Cohen

    #971 Philip Cohen: Does It Make Sense To Talk About Generations? · Jul 2024

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    Philip Dwyer

    #619 Philip Dwyer The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence · Apr 2022

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    Philip Kavanagh

    #190 Philip Kavanagh: Evolution And Clinical Psychology, Self-Esteem, And The Dark Triad · Jun 2019

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    Philip Nitschke

    #1123 Philip Nitschke: Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die · Jul 2025

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    Philippe Rochat

    #585 Philippe Rochat Moral Acrobatics: How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White · Feb 2022

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    Phoebe Ellsworth

    #100 Phoebe Ellsworth: Emotions, Eyewitness Accuracy, Juries, and the Death Penalty · Jun 2019

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    Quentin Atkinson

    #757 Quentin Atkinson: Comparing Cultures, Climate Change, and Religion · Mar 2023

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    Quill Kukla

    #1250 Quill Kukla - Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone · May 2026

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    R. Brian Ferguson

    #781 R. Brian Ferguson - Chimpanzees, War, and History: Are Men Born to Kill? · May 2023

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    R. Paul Thompson

    #753 R. Paul Thompson: Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society · Mar 2023

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    Rachel Steele

    #1298 Rachel Steele: Humanizing Sex Workers · Aug 2026

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    Radu Umbreș

    #691 Radu Umbreș - Living with Distrust: Morality and Cooperation in a Romanian Village · Oct 2022

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    Rafael Núñez

    #1164 Rafael Núñez: Embodied Cognition, Time, Space, and Mathematics · Oct 2025

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    Rafael Ruiz

    #1280 Rafael Ruiz: Is "Woke" Good, Actually? · Jul 2026

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    Ralph Hertwig

    #539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know · Oct 2021

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    Ralph Schroeder

    #612 Ralph Schroeder: Virtual Environments, Online Politics, Populism, and Big Data · Apr 2022

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    Randall Beer

    #886 Randall Beer: Autopoiesis, Enactivism, Dynamical Systems, and Evo-Devo Approaches in Biology · Jan 2024

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    Rani Lill Anjum

    #167 Rani Lill Anjum: Philosophy of Causation, Scientific Models, And Medicine · Apr 2019

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