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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   Moshe Hoffman

   #718 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human Behavior (Pt. 2) · 5 episodes

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   Neil Van Leeuwen

   #865 Neil Van Leeuwen - Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity · Nov 2023

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   Nichola Raihani

   #516 Nichola Raihani - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World · Sep 2021

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   Peter Richerson

   #139 Peter Richerson: Biology and Culture, Cultural Evolution, Cognition, and Group Selection · Feb 2019

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   Robert Pennock

   #629 Robert Pennock - An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science · May 2022

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   Roy Richard Grinker

   #1240 Roy Richard Grinker - Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness · Apr 2026

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   Sami Timimi

   #1219 Sami Timimi: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity · Feb 2026

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   Walter Scheidel

   #1170 Walter Scheidel: What Is Ancient History? · Oct 2025

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   Will Gervais

   #1045 Will Gervais - Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species · Jan 2025

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    Zion Lights

    #1002 Zion Lights: Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, and Ethical Parenting · Oct 2024

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    Alicia Juarrero

    #840 Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence · Sep 2023

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    Hakwan Lau

    #844 Hakwan Lau - In Consciousness We Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience · Oct 2023

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    Kathryn Nave

    #1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life · Feb 2025

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    Lauren Ross

    #1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science · Feb 2025

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    Luis Favela

    #903 Luis Favela - The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment · 2 episodes

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    Luiz Pessoa

    #882 Luiz Pessoa - The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together · Jan 2024

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    Mike Frank

    #926 Michael Frank: Child Development and Language Acquisition · Apr 2024

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    Nick Enfield

    #679 Nick Enfield - Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists · Sep 2022

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    Steve Grossberg

    #922 Stephen Grossberg - Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind · Apr 2024

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    Vicente Raja
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    Aaron Lukaszewski

    #1013 Aaron Lukaszewski: An Evolutionary Approach to Personality · Oct 2024

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    Aaron Sell

    #739 Aaron Sell: The Evolution of Anger and Hatred, and Justice-Making Institutions · Feb 2023

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    Abigail Page

    #239 Abigail Page: Cooperative Breeding, Social Networks, And Health In The Agta · Oct 2019

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    Abraham Newman

    #963 Abraham Newman - Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy · Jul 2024

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    Abraham Tesser

    #284 Abraham Tesser: The Self-evaluation Maintenance Model · Jan 2020

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    Adam Bode

    #1138 Adam Bode: The Science of Romantic Love · Aug 2025

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    Adam Chandler

    #1155 Adam Chandler - 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life · Sep 2025

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    Adam Safron

    #1116 Adam Safron: Consciousness, AI, Psychedelics, and The Self · Jun 2025

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    Adam Toon

    #957 Adam Toon - Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism · Jun 2024

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    Agner Fog

    #412 Agner Fog: Cultural Evolution, Memetics, Politics and the Media · 2 episodes

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    Aiyana Koka Willard

    #472 Aiyana Koka Willard: Religion, Cognition, Culture, and Human Universals · May 2021

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    Alan Fiske

    #121 Alan Fiske: The Four Relational Models, Virtuous Violence, and Morality · Jul 2019

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    Alan Love

    #1131 Alan Love: How Can Development Influence Evolution? · Aug 2025

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    Alberto Acerbi

    #1207 Alberto Acerbi: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears · 2 episodes

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    Alecia Carter

    #851 Alecia Carter: Thanatology, Animal Personality, Comparative Psychology, and Culture · Oct 2023

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    Alessandra Cassar

    #764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development · Apr 2023

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    Alex Mesoudi

    #228 Alex Mesoudi: Studying Cultural Evolution, Migration And Transmission · Sep 2019

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    Alexander Bor

    #788 Alexander Bor: Online Political Hostily; and the Moralization and Political Effects of COVID-19 · May 2023

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    Alexander Thomas

    #1089 Alexander Thomas: The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism · Apr 2025

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    Alexandra Kalev

    #755 Alexandra Kalev - Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't · Mar 2023

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