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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   Simon Baron-Cohen

   #746 Simon Baron-Cohen: Autism, Systemizing, Empathy, and Sex Differences · Feb 2023

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   Todd Kashdan

   #736 Todd Kashdan: The Psychology of Well-Being · 2 episodes

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   Vanessa Bohns

   #837 Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think · Sep 2023

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   Alex Rosenberg

   #1166 Alexander Rosenberg: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better...Why We Need It Anyway · 3 episodes

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   Benjamin Friedman

   #513 Benjamin Friedman: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism · Aug 2021

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   Branko Milanovic

   #845 Branko Milanović - Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War · 2 episodes

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   Deborah Gordon

   #804 Deborah Gordon: Ant Colonies, Distributed Intelligence, and Systems Without Central Control · Jul 2023

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   Elijah Millgram

   #811 Elijah Millgram: Practical Reasoning and Ethics · Jul 2023

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   Elizabeth Anderson

   #946 Elizabeth Anderson: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers · May 2024

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    Hanno Sauer

    #873 Hanno Sauer - Moral Teleology: A Theory of Progress · 2 episodes

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    J. Doyne Farmer

    #1029 J. Doyne Farmer - Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World · Dec 2024

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    Jacob Stegenga

    #1245 Jacob Stegenga - Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry · 2 episodes

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    James Salzman

    #594 James Salzman - Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives · Mar 2022

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    Jerry Muller

    #68 Jerry Z. Muller: History and Philosophy of Capitalism · May 2019

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    Joseph Uscinski

    #772 Joseph Uscinski: The Politics and Psychology of Conspiracy Theories · Apr 2023

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    Kevin Mitchell

    #1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological Traits · 5 episodes

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    Mark Rank

    #968 Mark Rank: How Chance and Luck Shape Our Lives and the World around Us · Jul 2024

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    Melanie Mitchell

    #373 Melanie Mitchell: AI, Complex Systems, Human Cognition, and Algorithms · Oct 2020

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    Philip Ball

    #1325 Philip Ball - The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics · 3 episodes

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    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    #1201 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us · 2 episodes

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    Robert Burton

    #246 Robert Burton: On Being Certain · Oct 2019

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    Ryan Burge

    #1313 Ryan Burge: The Vanishing Church · Oct 2026

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    Adam Bulley

    #793 Adam Bulley - The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight · Jun 2023

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    Adam Rutherford

    #750 Adam Rutherford - Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics · Mar 2023

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    Andy Norman

    #474 Andrew Norman - Mental Immunity; Reason, Critical Thinking, Beliefs, and Morality · May 2021

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    Ann-Sophie Barwich

    #411 Ann-Sophie Barwich - Smellosophy: What the Nose tells the Mind · 2 episodes

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    Arvid Ågren

    #1272 Arvid Ågren & Manus Patten: The Paradox of the Organism · 2 episodes

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    Chiara Marletto

    #491 Chiara Marletto - The Science of Can and Can't; The Physics/Science of Counterfactuals · 2 episodes

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    Christian List

    #419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real · Jan 2021

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    Christopher Ferguson

    #745 Christopher Ferguson - Catastrophe!; Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse · 2 episodes

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    Coleen Murphy

    #1211 Coleen Murphy - How We Age: The Science of Longevity · Feb 2026

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    David Haig

    #356 David Haig: Genetics, Development, and Intragenomic Conflict · Aug 2020

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    Dean Buonomano

    #762 Dean Buonomano: The Neuroscience of Time · Mar 2023

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    Derek Leben

    #206 Derek Leben: Ethics for Robots, Contractarianism, Self-Driving Cars · Jul 2019

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    Edward Slingerland

    #476 Edward Slingerland - Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization · 2 episodes

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    Edward Watts

    #1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History · 4 episodes

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    Eric Schwitzgebel

    #769 Eric Schwitzgebel: Beliefs, Introspection, Ethics Professors, and Women in Philosophy · Apr 2023

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    Erica Cartmill

    #1017 Erica Cartmill: The Evolution of Ape Gestures and Human Language · Nov 2024

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    Frans de Waal

    #617 Frans de Waal - Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist · 2 episodes

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    Freddie DeBoer

    #831 Freddie deBoer: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement · Sep 2023

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