The Dissenter

Ricardo Lopes

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…

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#1297 Neil Sinhababu: Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence 2026-08-24 · 48m
#1296 Carolyn Kraft: Discussing the Ethics and Legality of Sex Work 2026-08-21 · 104m
#1295 Neal Hebert: A Philosophical Analysis of Wrestling | WWE SummerSlam 2026 2026-08-20 · 112m
#1294 Harry Reis - How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most 2026-08-17 · 75m
#1293 Amy McPhie Allebest: Breaking Down Patriarchy 2026-08-14 · 89m
#1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value 2026-08-13 · 81m
#1291 Christopher Kavanagh & Matthew Browne: Decoding the Gurus 2026-08-10 · 102m
8 and 1/2 Years of The Dissenter: I Need Your Support, Please 2026-08-08 · 2m
#1290 Matthew Lindauer: The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts 2026-08-07 · 84m
#1289 Wataru Toyokawa: Social Learning, Collective Decision-Making, and the Wisdom/Madness of Crowds 2026-08-06 · 74m
#1288 Omer Bartov - Israel: What Went Wrong? 2026-08-03 · 49m
#1287 Audun Dahl - Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing 2026-07-31 · 66m
#1286 Hugo Drochon: Elites and Democracy 2026-07-30 · 65m
#1285 Luke Kemp - Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse 2026-07-27 · 66m
#1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation? 2026-07-24 · 79m
#1283 Stijn Vanheule: Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy 2026-07-23 · 56m
#1282 Turi Munthe - Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs 2026-07-20 · 69m
#1281 Francesca Rossi: The Benefits and Risks of AI 2026-07-17 · 36m
#1280 Rafael Ruiz: Is "Woke" Good, Actually? 2026-07-16 · 51m
#1279 Patrick Hassan: An Open Conversation About Suicide with a Philosopher 2026-07-13 · 78m
#1278 Paul Pettitt: Human Mortuary Practices, and Other Animals' Awareness of Death 2026-07-10 · 68m
#1277 Matthew McManus: The Right Wants You Stupid, and Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Marxism 2026-07-09 · 82m
#1276 Daisy Dixon - Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art 2026-07-06 · 100m
#1275 Orna Donath: Women Who Regret Having Children 2026-07-03 · 55m
#1274 Julian Kiverstein: 4E Cognition, Phenomenology, Culture, and Science 2026-07-02 · 104m
#1273 Helen Pearson - Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works 2026-06-29 · 53m
#1272 Arvid Ågren & Manus Patten: The Paradox of the Organism 2026-06-26 · 53m
#1271 Douglas Fry: Advanced Introduction to Conflict Resolution 2026-06-25 · 104m
#1270 Paul Eastwick: Evolutionary Psychology Is Wrong About Mating 2026-06-22 · 76m
#1269 Breeze Oliver & Kerushi Drake: Destroying Every Manosphere Claim 2026-06-19 · 107m
#1268 Christian Miller: The Honesty Crisis 2026-06-18 · 65m
#1267 Mary Knight: Infidelity, Relationships with Escorts, and Intimacy 2026-06-15 · 84m
#1266 Robert Pantano (Pursuit of Wonder): The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness 2026-06-12 · 83m
#1265 Nina Hartley: The Feminist Sexual Revolution, Women's Reproductive Rights, and Sexlessness 2026-06-11 · 69m
#1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences 2026-06-08 · 115m
#1263 Carl-Johan Palmqvist: Semi-Secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond 2026-06-05 · 63m
#1262 Amanda Sukenick: Antinatalism, Extinction, The Right to Die, Eugenics, & More 2026-06-04 · 99m
#1261 Neal Hebert & Jon Cogburn: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism 2026-06-01 · 124m
#1260 Émile Torres: The Risks of AI and Climate Change 2026-05-29 · 65m
#1259 Sarah Stein Lubrano: Why Political Debate Does Not Work 2026-05-28 · 49m
#1258 Nuno Pessoa Gil: Uma Conversa Honesta Sobre Suicídio e Eutanásia Com Um Psiquiatra 2026-05-25 · 221m
#1257 Jeffry Simpson: Attachment Styles and Interpersonal Relationships 2026-05-22 · 42m
#1256 Nathan King - The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life 2026-05-21 · 69m
#1255 Teresa Baron: The Ethics of Procreation, Pronatalism, and Antinatalism 2026-05-18 · 57m
#1254 Lynda Boothroyd: How Culture and the Media Shape Gender Differences and Mate Preferences 2026-05-15 · 54m
#1253 Ricardo Barroso: Compormento Criminoso, do Ponto de Vista da Psicologia Clínica e da Justiça 2026-05-14 · 71m
#1252 David Benatar - The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions 2026-05-11 · 58m
#1251 Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees 2026-05-08 · 75m
#1250 Quill Kukla - Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone 2026-05-07 · 71m
#1249 Melissa Shew: Women and Intellectual Joy 2026-05-04 · 94m
#1248 Carles Lalueza-Fox - Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves 2026-05-01 · 70m
#1247 Zygmunt Baranski: Dante's Divine Comedy 2026-04-30 · 65m
#1246 Rivka Weinberg: Does Life Have Meaning? 2026-04-27 · 88m
#1245 Jacob Stegenga - Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry 2026-04-24 · 113m
#1244 Keegan Tatum: The Psychology of Politics, and the Reactionary Politics of the Conservatives 2026-04-23 · 84m
#1243 Jeff McMahan: Antinatalism, Extinctionism, Gene Editing, and Overpopulation 2026-04-20 · 101m
#1242 Serene Khader - Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop 2026-04-17 · 68m
#1241 Jessica Flanigan: The Ethics of Sex Work 2026-04-16 · 66m
#1240 Roy Richard Grinker - Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 2026-04-13 · 41m
#1239 Sophie Scott-Brown - The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain 2026-04-10 · 81m
#1238 Chris Ranalli: What Is Indoctrination? 2026-04-09 · 100m
#1237 Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator 2026-04-06 · 65m
#1236 Paul Thagard - Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: How Brains Build Consciousness 2026-04-03 · 71m
#1235 Nicole Rust: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That 2026-04-02 · 60m
#1234 Uljana Feest - Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration 2026-03-30 · 72m
#1233 Steven Hollon: A Clinical and Evolutionary Approach to Depression 2026-03-27 · 54m
#1232 Michael Mann - Science Under Siege: The Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World 2026-03-26 · 50m
#1231 Michael Gurven - Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer 2026-03-23 · 136m
#1230 William von Hippel: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness 2026-03-20 · 70m
#1229 Nandita Bajaj, Zachary Neal, and Jennifer Neal: Debunking Pronatalist Claims 2026-03-19 · 67m
#1228 David Calnitsky: Basic Income, Poverty, and Socialism 2026-03-16 · 71m
8 Years of The Dissenter: I Need Your Support, Please 2026-03-14 · 3m
#1227 Steven Sloman - The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray 2026-03-13 · 45m
#1226 Nicolas Jabko - Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money 2026-03-12 · 46m
#1225 Brittany Andrews: How Policies Against Sex Work Reinforce Patriarchy and Misogyny 2026-03-09 · 60m
#1224 Dan Zahavi - Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology 2026-03-06 · 63m
#1223 Sonia Contera: Six Problems That Science Cannot Solve 2026-03-05 · 59m
#1222 Teresa Baron: The Artificial Womb on Trial 2026-03-02 · 56m
#1221 Richard Wolff: Marxism, Dialectical Materialism, and Science 2026-02-27 · 54m
#1220 Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature 2026-02-26 · 49m
#1219 Sami Timimi: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity 2026-02-23 · 73m
#1218 Edward Hagen: Is Sex Binary? 2026-02-20 · 102m
#1217 Hanna Schleihauf: Other People's Beliefs, Belief Revision, and Good Reasoning 2026-02-19 · 46m
#1216 Laura Carroll: Childfree Choices, and How Pronatalism Promotes Disinformation and Misogyny 2026-02-16 · 64m
#1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science 2026-02-13 · 53m
#1214 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Love and Connection 2026-02-12 · 67m
#1213 Nathan Lents - The Sexual Evolution: Sex, Gender, and Mating 2026-02-09 · 58m
#1212 Marina Dubova: The Cognitive Foundations of Science 2026-02-06 · 44m
#1211 Coleen Murphy - How We Age: The Science of Longevity 2026-02-05 · 54m
#1210 Cristina Bicchieri: What Are Social Norms, and How do They Change? 2026-02-02 · 47m
#1209 Patrick Foote - Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us 2026-01-30 · 50m
#1208 Eleanor Scerri: Homo sapiens in Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Malta 2026-01-29 · 63m
#1207 Alberto Acerbi: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears 2026-01-26 · 97m
#1206 Victoria Dougherty: On Fictional Adaptations 2026-01-23 · 100m
#1205 Jasmine Sherni: Being Part of a Cultural Minority in the Sex Industry 2026-01-22 · 61m
#1204 Sarah Dierna: The History and Theory of Antinatalism 2026-01-19 · 112m
#1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism 2026-01-16 · 37m
#1202 Valerie Tiberius: The Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being 2026-01-15 · 48m
#1201 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us 2026-01-12 · 78m
#1200 Vicky Oelze: The Anthropology of the Atlantic and Transatlantic Slave Trade 2026-01-09 · 55m
#1199 Jason Clarke - Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception 2026-01-08 · 79m
#1198 Rebecca Love: Where Negative Attitudes Towards Sex Workers Stem From 2026-01-05 · 71m
#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine 2026-01-02 · 72m
#1196 Walter Veit: A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness 2026-01-01 · 71m
#1195 Kaytlin Bailey: The History of Sex Work, and What Sex Workers Need Politically 2025-12-29 · 56m
#1194 Kah Dantas: Trabalho Sexual, Marxismo e Feminismo 2025-12-26 · 114m
#1193 Jennifer Nagel: Epistemic Intuitions, Knowledge, and Common Knowledge 2025-12-25 · 64m
#1192 Ava Devine: A Legend of the Sex Industry 2025-12-22 · 57m
#1191 Keegan Kjeldsen - Nietzsche's Philosophy: Reason, Truth, Politics & More 2025-12-19 · 131m
#1190 Eric Storm - Nationalism: A World History 2025-12-18 · 66m
#1189 Nina Hartley: Pornography, Sex Education, and Feminism 2025-12-15 · 86m
#1188 Ashley Randall: Sexual Minority and Gender-Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships 2025-12-12 · 26m
#1187 Peter Turchin: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Elite Overproduction, and Social Unrest 2025-12-11 · 51m
#1186 Alice Little: Debunking Myths About Sex Work 2025-12-08 · 58m
#1185 Olympia Campbell: Violence Against Women Across Societies 2025-12-05 · 41m
#1185 Giovanni Rolla: Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Embodied Cognition 2025-12-05 · 59m
#1184 Maël Lemoine - Philosophy of Physiology: What is Disease, and What is Health? 2025-12-04 · 45m
#1183 Marcela Alonso: Sex Work, Feminism, and Relationships 2025-12-01 · 67m
#1182 Dries Bostyn: How People Respond to Trolley Dilemmas 2025-11-28 · 58m
#1181 Shinobu Kitayama - Cultural Differences in Psychological Traits: The Self, Emotions, and More 2025-11-27 · 51m
#1180 Olivia Bentley: The Life of a Sex Worker and Misconceptions About It 2025-11-24 · 69m
#1179 Jaap de Roode - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves 2025-11-21 · 58m
#1178 Karen Lloyd - Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth 2025-11-20 · 37m
#1177 Mark Alfano: Nietzsche on Virtue 2025-11-17 · 42m
#1176 Justin Lehmiller: The Science of Desire, and The Most Common Sexual Fantasies 2025-11-14 · 56m
#1175 Jakob Norberg: Schopenhauer's Politics 2025-11-13 · 95m
#1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist 2025-11-10 · 101m
#1173 David Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge 2025-11-07 · 39m
#1172 Omer Bartov: Is/Was There a Genocide in Gaza? 2025-11-06 · 57m
#1171 Ana Drago - Oportunidade ou Maldição: A indústria do turismo em Portugal 2025-11-03 · 81m
#1170 Walter Scheidel: What Is Ancient History? 2025-10-31 · 47m
#1169 Gabriel Zamosc-Regueros - Nietzsche's Ideals: Sovereignty, Wholeness, and Becoming What One Is 2025-10-30 · 102m
#1168 Jeff McMahan: The Ethics of Political Violence: Can It Be Justified? 2025-10-27 · 77m
#1167 Allen Buchanan - Ideology and Revolution: Hierarchy, Resistance, Revolution, and Morality 2025-10-24 · 102m
#1166 Alexander Rosenberg: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better...Why We Need It Anyway 2025-10-23 · 51m
#1165 Aubrey de Grey: The Science of Aging and Longevity 2025-10-20 · 45m
#1164 Rafael Núñez: Embodied Cognition, Time, Space, and Mathematics 2025-10-17 · 48m
#1163 Herman Pontzer: How to Understand Human Biological Variation: "Race", Height, Gender, and More 2025-10-16 · 70m
#1162 Michael Huemer - Progressive Myths: Racism, Feminism, Gender, Science, and More 2025-10-13 · 106m
#1161 Anna Bocca: The Origins, Spread, and Failures of Neoliberal Capitalism 2025-10-10 · 116m
#1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History 2025-10-09 · 109m
#1159 Michael Hudson - Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East 2025-10-06 · 73m
#1158 Vibeke Ottesen: The Psychology of Political Violence 2025-10-03 · 61m
#1157 Melissa Shew & Kimberly Garchar: Philosophy for Girls 2025-10-02 · 83m
#1156 Eric Sprankle: The History and Science of Masturbation and Pornography 2025-09-29 · 86m
#1155 Adam Chandler - 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life 2025-09-26 · 51m
#1154 Michael Cook: A History of the Muslim World (Part 2) 2025-09-25 · 64m
#1153 Richard Wolff: Economic Inequality and Why We Need to Tax the Rich 2025-09-22 · 47m
#1152 Michael Cholbi: The Philosophy of Death and Dying 2025-09-19 · 40m
#1151 William Chopik: Partner Dynamics and Relationship Satisfaction 2025-09-18 · 67m
#1150 Mark Blyth - Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers 2025-09-15 · 51m
#1149 Sean McMeekin: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism 2025-09-12 · 49m
#1148 Owen Flanagan: What Is It Like to Be an Addict? 2025-09-11 · 80m
#1147 Charlotte Blease - Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives 2025-09-08 · 48m
#1146 Brad Duchaine: Face Perception, Prosopagnosia, and Prosopometamorphopsia 2025-09-05 · 49m
#1145 Javier Suárez: Units of Selection in Evolution 2025-09-04 · 37m
#1144 Nikhil Chaudhary: Cooperation, Social Learning, Breeding Systems, and Evolutionary Psychiatry 2025-09-01 · 63m
#1142 Gül Salali: Social Dynamics, Culture, Mental Health and Physical Health in Hunter-Gatherers 2025-08-28 · 72m
#1141 Matti Häyry: Cloning and Antinatalism 2025-08-25 · 44m
#1140 Will Storr: How to Use the Science of Storytelling to Lead, Motivate and Persuade 2025-08-22 · 59m
#1139 Kristen Ghodsee: Real-Life Utopian Societies 2025-08-21 · 72m
#1138 Adam Bode: The Science of Romantic Love 2025-08-18 · 60m
#1137 Scott Hershovitz: Law Is a Moral Practice 2025-08-15 · 58m
#1136 Ronald de Sousa: Why It's OK to Be Amoral 2025-08-14 · 69m
#1135 Ian James Kidd: What is Misanthropy? 2025-08-11 · 60m
#1134 Norbert Peeters: Botanic Philosophy, von Humboldt, Darwin, and Why Plants Matter 2025-08-08 · 98m
#1133 Blake Roeber - Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan Political Climate 2025-08-07 · 61m
#1132 Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Robert Sapolsky, the Genomic Code, and Human Embryo Editing 2025-08-04 · 129m
7 Years and 1/2: Fundraising Campaign 2025-08-02 · 2m
#1131 Alan Love: How Can Development Influence Evolution? 2025-08-01 · 58m
#1130 Sam Carr: How People Deal With Loneliness 2025-07-31 · 66m
#1129 Agnes Callard - Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 2025-07-28 · 42m
#1128 Daniel Silverman: Why People Believe Misinformation in War 2025-07-25 · 70m
#1127 Jonathan Losos - Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution 2025-07-24 · 45m
#1126 Nicole Prause: Pornography, NoFap, and Orgasm 2025-07-21 · 55m
#1125 Daniel Fessler: Physical Formidability, Male Muscularity, Pathogen-Avoidance & More 2025-07-18 · 83m
#1124 Miguel Segundo Ortín & Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology 2025-07-17 · 67m
#1123 Philip Nitschke: Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die 2025-07-14 · 63m
#1122 Daniela Rodrigues: Communication in Apes and Humans, and the Cognitive Foundations of Language 2025-07-11 · 60m
#1121 Deena Emera: A Brief History of the Female Body 2025-07-10 · 69m
#1120 Pascal Boyer: Ritualized Behavior, Ownership Psychology, and Victim-Devaluation 2025-07-07 · 75m
#1119 Anna Ivanova: Language and Large Language Models 2025-07-04 · 43m
#1118 Peter Adamson - Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries 2025-07-03 · 69m
#1117 Stephen Morris - Moral Damages: The Case for Abolishing Morality 2025-06-30 · 111m
#1116 Adam Safron: Consciousness, AI, Psychedelics, and The Self 2025-06-27 · 60m
#1115 Patrícia Silva: Portugal in the 21st Century 2025-06-26 · 74m
#1114 Sybil Hart: Attachment and Parent-Offspring Conflict 2025-06-23 · 56m
#1113 Vicky Oelze: The Diets of Great Apes, and the Evolution of Human Diets 2025-06-20 · 80m
#1112 Angela Potochnik - Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning 2025-06-19 · 64m
#1111 Charlotte Blease - The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick 2025-06-16 · 75m
#1110 Willem Frankenhuis: Human Development in Harsh and Unpredictable Environments 2025-06-13 · 64m
#1109 Stefanos Geroulanos: The Invention of Prehistory 2025-06-12 · 53m
#1143 Brian Lerch: Same-Sex Sexual Behavior, Indiscriminate Sexual Behavior, Attachment, and Divorce 2025-06-10 · 50m
#1108 Laurie Mintz - Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It 2025-06-09 · 37m
#1107 Donald Johanson: Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, and Homo habilis 2025-06-06 · 59m
#1106 Kevin Hong: Magic, Divination, and Dream Interpretation Across Societies 2025-06-05 · 63m
#1105 Kostas Kampourakis - Trusting Science: Why We Need to Reconsider School Science Teaching 2025-06-02 · 49m
#1104 Vanessa Wills: Marx's Ethical Vision 2025-05-30 · 68m
#1103 Paul Seabright - The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People 2025-05-29 · 75m
#1102 Mandi Astola: Character, Virtue, and Vice 2025-05-26 · 67m
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