The Dissenter

Science

The Dissenter

by 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 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.

100 episodes

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1

#1230 William von Hippel: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness

1:09:57 Mar 20, 2026

2

#1229 Nandita Bajaj, Zachary Neal, and Jennifer Neal: Debunking Pronatalist Claims

1:07:00 Mar 19, 2026

3

#1228 David Calnitsky: Basic Income, Poverty, and Socialism

1:10:50 Mar 16, 2026

4

8 Years of The Dissenter: I Need Your Support, Please

2:39 Mar 14, 2026

5

#1227 Steven Sloman - The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray

45:25 Mar 13, 2026

6

#1226 Nicolas Jabko - Technocrats in Turmoil: The Fed, the ECB, and the Changing Politics of Money

46:25 Mar 12, 2026

7

#1225 Brittany Andrews: How Policies Against Sex Work Reinforce Patriarchy and Misogyny

59:51 Mar 9, 2026

8

#1224 Dan Zahavi - Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology

1:02:48 Mar 6, 2026

9

#1223 Sonia Contera: Six Problems That Science Cannot Solve

59:05 Mar 5, 2026

10

#1222 Teresa Baron: The Artificial Womb on Trial

55:50 Mar 2, 2026

11

#1221 Richard Wolff: Marxism, Dialectical Materialism, and Science

54:01 Feb 27, 2026

12

#1220 Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

49:16 Feb 26, 2026

13

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

1:13:10 Feb 23, 2026

14

#1218 Edward Hagen: Is Sex Binary?

1:42:28 Feb 20, 2026

15

#1217 Hanna Schleihauf: Other People's Beliefs, Belief Revision, and Good Reasoning

45:42 Feb 19, 2026

16

#1216 Laura Carroll: Childfree Choices, and How Pronatalism Promotes Disinformation and Misogyny

1:03:35 Feb 16, 2026

17

#1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science

52:40 Feb 13, 2026

18

#1214 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Love and Connection

1:07:20 Feb 12, 2026

19

#1213 Nathan Lents - The Sexual Evolution: Sex, Gender, and Mating

58:20 Feb 9, 2026

20

#1212 Marina Dubova: The Cognitive Foundations of Science

43:57 Feb 6, 2026

21

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

54:18 Feb 5, 2026

22

#1210 Cristina Bicchieri: What Are Social Norms, and How do They Change?

47:20 Feb 2, 2026

23

#1209 Patrick Foote - Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us

50:21 Jan 30, 2026

24

#1208 Eleanor Scerri: Homo sapiens in Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Malta

1:02:44 Jan 29, 2026

25

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

1:37:03 Jan 26, 2026

26

#1206 Victoria Dougherty: On Fictional Adaptations

1:39:35 Jan 23, 2026

27

#1205 Jasmine Sherni: Being Part of a Cultural Minority in the Sex Industry

1:00:41 Jan 22, 2026

28

#1204 Sarah Dierna: The History and Theory of Antinatalism

1:51:43 Jan 19, 2026

29

#1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism

37:01 Jan 16, 2026

30

#1202 Valerie Tiberius: The Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being

47:32 Jan 15, 2026

31

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

1:18:08 Jan 12, 2026

32

#1200 Vicky Oelze: The Anthropology of the Atlantic and Transatlantic Slave Trade

55:25 Jan 9, 2026

33

#1199 Jason Clarke - Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception

1:19:25 Jan 8, 2026

34

#1198 Rebecca Love: Where Negative Attitudes Towards Sex Workers Stem From

1:10:56 Jan 5, 2026

35

#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine

1:11:44 Jan 2, 2026

36

#1196 Walter Veit: A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

1:10:52 Jan 1, 2026

37

#1195 Kaytlin Bailey: The History of Sex Work, and What Sex Workers Need Politically

56:26 Dec 29, 2025

38

#1194 Kah Dantas: Trabalho Sexual, Marxismo e Feminismo

1:54:17 Dec 26, 2025

39

#1193 Jennifer Nagel: Epistemic Intuitions, Knowledge, and Common Knowledge

1:04:23 Dec 25, 2025

40

#1192 Ava Devine: A Legend of the Sex Industry

56:55 Dec 22, 2025

41

#1191 Keegan Kjeldsen - Nietzsche's Philosophy: Reason, Truth, Politics & More

2:10:36 Dec 19, 2025

42

#1190 Eric Storm - Nationalism: A World History

1:06:15 Dec 18, 2025

43

#1189 Nina Hartley: Pornography, Sex Education, and Feminism

1:25:33 Dec 15, 2025

44

#1188 Ashley Randall: Sexual Minority and Gender-Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships

25:35 Dec 12, 2025

45

#1187 Peter Turchin: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Elite Overproduction, and Social Unrest

50:50 Dec 11, 2025

46

#1186 Alice Little: Debunking Myths About Sex Work

57:50 Dec 8, 2025

47

#1185 Olympia Campbell: Violence Against Women Across Societies

40:30 Dec 5, 2025

48

#1185 Giovanni Rolla: Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Embodied Cognition

59:08 Dec 5, 2025

49

#1184 Maël Lemoine - Philosophy of Physiology: What is Disease, and What is Health?

45:07 Dec 4, 2025

50

#1183 Marcela Alonso: Sex Work, Feminism, and Relationships

1:06:49 Dec 1, 2025

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