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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   Matt McManus

   #1277 Matthew McManus: The Right Wants You Stupid, and Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Marxism · 2 episodes

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   Nadine Strossen

   #995 Nadine Strossen: Defending Pornography · 2 episodes

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   Neil Levy

   #703 Neil Levy - Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People · Nov 2022

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   Paul Russell

   #784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility · May 2023

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   Peter Adamson

   #1118 Peter Adamson - Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries · 2 episodes

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   Robert B. Talisse

   #727 Robert Talisse: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Democracy, and Liberalism · Jan 2023

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   Russell Gray

   #577 Russell Gray: Language Evolution, Big Gods and Rituals, and Animal Cognition · Jan 2022

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   Shaun Nichols

   #339 Shaun Nichols: The Philosophy And Psychology Of Morality · May 2020

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   Simon Blackburn

   Simon Blackburn Part 2: Moral Relativism, Free Will, and the Meaning of Life · 3 episodes

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    Stephen Darwall

    #669 Stephen Darwall: Morality as Accountability, Moral Obligation, Rights, and Moral Psychology · Aug 2022

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    Stephen Law

    #165 Stephen Law: Naturalism, Liberalism, And The Religious And The Atheists · Apr 2019

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    Suki Finn

    #1301 Suki Finn - What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought · 2 episodes

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    Christopher Chabris

    #74 Christopher Chabris: The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Cognitive Illusions · May 2019

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    Daniel Simons

    #910 Daniel Simons - Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It · Mar 2024

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    Martin Puchner

    #545 Martin Puchner: Rotwelsch, The Language of Thieves, and the Nazi Regime · Nov 2021

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    Olivier Sibony

    #470 Olivier Sibony - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment · May 2021

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    Chad Orzel

    #759 Chad Orzel - A Brief History of Timekeeping; from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks · Mar 2023

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    Craig Callender

    #1032 Craig Callender: The Physics of Time · Dec 2024

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    David Wolpert

    #1073 David Wolpert: History as a Stochastic Process · Mar 2025

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    James Fallon

    #647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate · Jul 2022

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    Lee Jussim

    #91 Lee Jussim: How Stereotypes Work, and the Current State of Social Psychology · Jun 2019

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    Martin Daly

    #149 Martin Daly: Evolution, Inequality, Violence And Homicide · Mar 2019

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    Paul Halpern

    #909 Paul Halpern: The Allure of the Multiverse · Mar 2024

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    Randy Thornhill

    Randy Thornhill Part 2: Parasite-Stress, Disgust, Religion, Values, and Speciation · 3 episodes

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    Robert Trivers

    #187 Robert Trivers: Parental Investment, Reciprocal Altruism, Self-Deception · Jun 2019

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    Tanya Luhrmann

    #627 Tanya Luhrmann - How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others · May 2022

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    Terrence Deacon

    Terrence Deacon Part 2: Consciousness, Semiotics, Symbolism and Language · 3 episodes

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    Anna Ivanova

    #1119 Anna Ivanova: Language and Large Language Models · Jul 2025

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    Peggy Mason

    #146 Peggy Mason: The Neuroscience of Empathy and Helping Behavior · Mar 2019

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    Susan Goldin-Meadow

    #972 Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with Your Hands · Jul 2024

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    Susana Monsó

    #695 Susana Monsó: How Animals Experience and Understand Death · Oct 2022

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    Emily Qureshi-Hurst

    #929 Emily Qureshi-Hurst: God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime · Apr 2024

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    Alva Noë

    #921 Alva Noë - The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are · Mar 2024

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    Kevin Dorst

    #783 Kevin Dorst: Epistemology, Justified Beliefs, and Epistemic Modesty · May 2023

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    Michael Graziano

    #127 Michael Graziano: Consciousness, From Animals To AI · Aug 2019

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    Michael Strevens

    #457 Michael Strevens - The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science · Apr 2021

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    Aaron Rabinowitz

    #277 Aaron Rabinowitz: Moral Realism, and Objective Morality · Jan 2020

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    Colin DeYoung

    #864 Colin DeYoung: Personality and Psychopathology · 2 episodes

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    Eric Turkheimer

    #52 Eric Turkheimer: Four Laws of Behavior Genetics, Gene-Environment Dynamics, IQ · Apr 2019

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    James Flynn

    #51 James Flynn: Intelligence and IQ, the Flynn effect, group comparisons · Apr 2019

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