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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   Oded Galor

   #852 Oded Galor - The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality · Oct 2023

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   Omer Bartov

   #1288 Omer Bartov - Israel: What Went Wrong? · 2 episodes

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   Richard Nisbett

   #890 Richard Nisbett: Attribution Theory, Intelligence, and Cognitive Differences Across Cultures · 2 episodes

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   Samuel Veissière

   #933 Samuel Veissière: The Psychological Effects of the Internet, and Human Cognition and Culture · Apr 2024

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   Charles Fernyhough

   #775 Charles Fernyhough: Inner Speech, Imaginary Companions, and Auditory Hallucinations · Apr 2023

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   Charlotte Blease

   #1147 Charlotte Blease - Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives · 2 episodes

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   Chris Stringer

   #270 Christopher Stringer: The Past And Future Of Human Evolution · Dec 2019

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   Clara Mattei

   #731 Clara Mattei - The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism · Jan 2023

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   David Christian

   #76 David Christian: Big History, and the Unity of Knowledge · May 2019

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    David Wootton

    #208 David Wootton: History of Science, Philosophy, Politics, And Capitalism · Jul 2019

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    Grace Blakeley

    #960 Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism · Jun 2024

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    Kristen Ghodsee

    #1139 Kristen Ghodsee: Real-Life Utopian Societies · 2 episodes

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    Lucy Cooke

    #713 Lucy Cooke - Bitch: On the Female of the Species · Dec 2022

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    Morten Christiansen
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    Nicholas Humphrey

    #242 Nicholas Humphrey: The Psychology Of Consciousness And Intelligence · Oct 2019

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    Nick Chater

    #659 Nick Chater & Morten Christiansen - The Language Game; Language as a Game of Charades · 2 episodes

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    Pete Etchells

    #993 Peter Etchells - Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) · Sep 2024

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    Sonia Contera

    #1223 Sonia Contera: Six Problems That Science Cannot Solve · Mar 2026

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    Tim Clutton-Brock

    #493 Tim Clutton-Brock: The Evolution of Sociality, and Mammal Societies · Jul 2021

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    Mazviita Chirimuuta

    #935 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted · May 2024

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    Rebecca Roache

    #147 Rebecca Roache: Philosophy of Psychiatry, Depression, Human Enhancement, and Crime · Mar 2019

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    Adina Roskies

    #776 Adina Roskies: Neuroimaging Studies, Neuroethics, and Free Will · May 2023

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    Allen Buchanan

    #1167 Allen Buchanan - Ideology and Revolution: Hierarchy, Resistance, Revolution, and Morality · 2 episodes

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    Andy Knoll

    #733 Andrew Knoll - A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters · Jan 2023

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    Brian Leiter

    #1018 Brian Leiter & Jaime Edwards: The Life and Ideas of Marx · 2 episodes

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    Catherine Wilson

    #211 Catherine Wilson: Epicureanism, Atomism, Materialism, And Modernity · 2 episodes

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    Chris Frith
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    Christian Miller

    #1268 Christian Miller: The Honesty Crisis · 4 episodes

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    Colin McGinn

    #86 Colin McGinn: Types of Minds, Consciousness, Animal Rights · May 2019

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    Dan Sperber

    #556 Dan Sperber: Culture, Cultural Attraction Theory, Epistemic Vigilance, and Reason · Dec 2021

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    David Bather Woods

    #1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist · Nov 2025

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    David Papineau

    #462 David Papineau: The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience · 2 episodes

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    Gregg Caruso

    #436 Gregg Caruso: Just Deserts, and Rejecting Retributivism · Feb 2021

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    Helen Pearson

    #1273 Helen Pearson - Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works · Jun 2026

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    Ian Tattersall

    #368 Ian Tattersall: Human Evolution and Cognition · Sep 2020

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    Jennifer Nagel

    #1193 Jennifer Nagel: Epistemic Intuitions, Knowledge, and Common Knowledge · Dec 2025

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    Joshua Knobe

    #902 Joshua Knobe: How Morality Influences People's Philosophical and Scientific Intuitions · Feb 2024

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    Keith Frankish

    #138 Keith Frankish: Consciousness, Illusionism, Free Will, and AI · Feb 2019

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    Lisa Bortolotti

    #862 Lisa Bortolotti: Why Delusions Matter · 2 episodes

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    Luciano Floridi

    #855 Luciano Floridi - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities · 3 episodes

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