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,
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- 1 Nietzsche on the Eternal RecurrenceNeil Sinabu · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Nina Hartley's Guide to Better SexNina Hartley · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You've Been Waiting ForAmy Baldwin and April Lampert · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Tell Me What You WantJustin Lehmiller · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 The Erotic MindJack Morin · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 The Physics That Makes the Universe StickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 9 Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Nietzsche on the Eternal RecurrenceNeil Sinabu · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Nina Hartley's Guide to Better SexNina Hartley · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You've Been Waiting ForAmy Baldwin and April Lampert · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Tell Me What You WantJustin Lehmiller · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 The Erotic MindJack Morin · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 The Physics That Makes the Universe StickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 9 Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Nietzsche on the Eternal RecurrenceNeil Sinabu · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Nina Hartley's Guide to Better SexNina Hartley · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You've Been Waiting ForAmy Baldwin and April Lampert · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Tell Me What You WantJustin Lehmiller · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 The Erotic MindJack Morin · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 The Physics That Makes the Universe StickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 9 Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche · 1× across 1 episode
#1322 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon
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#1321 Emily Towner: Social Isolation and Social Media Use in Adolescents
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#1320 Vibeke Ottesen: How the Media Deal with Criminal Cases
0:00 / 99:50
#1319 Ricardo Paes Mamede - Política Industrial: Como os Estados Transformam as Economias
0:00 / 90:56
#1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology
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Units of Selection
Javier Suarez and Ann Elizabeth Lloyd
in a in a really nice book that i really recommend you which is called unit sub selection by javier suarez and ann elizabeth loy from two thousand twenty three ▶ tap to play from here
How Life Works
Philip Ball
i don't know if you have seen this other book uh and so well triggers three three years ago by by philip ball ▶ tap to play from here
#1317 Samuel Arbesman - The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
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Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Samuel Arbesman
he's the author of three books overcomplicated the magic of cold and the book we're going to focus on today the half life of facts ▶ tap to play from here
The Magic of Cold
Samuel Arbusman
he's the author of three books overcomplicated the magic of cold ▶ tap to play from here
The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Samuel Arbesman
the book we're going to focus on today the half life of facts why everything we know has an expiration date ▶ tap to play from here
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
if you are writing a physics paper chances that you are not going to be quoting like isaac newton's principia because that's kind of the core ▶ tap to play from here
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
there's this great book by catherine schultz called being wrong ▶ tap to play from here
#1316 Casper Hesp: Active Inference, Affect, Culture, and Phenomenology
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#1315 Samantha Waite: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Death
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#1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History
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The Europeanes: The History of the Idea of Europe
Dennis Hay
was as far as i was able to discover it's this really goes back to a professor at the university of edinburgh in the middle of the twentieth century dennis hay who wrote an excellent short book on the history of the idea of europe ▶ tap to play from here
Histories
Herodotus
in the middle of the century about four four seven bce he began writing his history to explain all the things that happened ▶ tap to play from here
The West: The History of an Idea
Jurgis Varouhakis
there's a marvelous book by a colleague of mine ▶ tap to play from here
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
the probably the greatest novel ever written war and peace really know takes issue with that ▶ tap to play from here
#1313 Ryan Burge: The Vanishing Church
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The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy and Faith
Ryan Burge
and today we're going to talk about his book the vanishing church how the hollowing out of moderate congregations is hurting democracy faith ▶ tap to play from here
#1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological Traits
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Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Kevin Mitchell
when in our first interview about your book inate but um what are individual differences in psychological traits ▶ tap to play from here
Free Agents
Kevin Mitchell
this is exactly why i wrote free agents is because i had written innate ▶ tap to play from here
#1311 Séamus Power - Inequality: A View from Manywheres
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Inequality: A View from Manywhere
Seamus Power
and today we're going to talk about his book inequality a view from manywhere ▶ tap to play from here
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
maybe you know since piketty and his kind of his book capital in the 21st century really put this issue of economic inequality uh back on the agenda ▶ tap to play from here
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
jonathan haidt uh he and i share some kind of lineage at the university of chicago and his book the righteous mind he also talks quite a lot about fairness ▶ tap to play from here
Capitalism and Global History
Sven Beckert
just out i was reading it over the summer a massive book called capitalism and global history by the harvard historian sven beckert ▶ tap to play from here
We Need to Tax Billionaires
Gabriel Zucman
you know the title kind of says it all ▶ tap to play from here
The Perfection Trap
Thomas Curran
my colleague thomas kern at the london school of economics writes about this in his book the perfection trap ▶ tap to play from here
On Inequality
Harry Frankfurt
uh influential book i think it was 2015 harry frankfurt a small little book called on inequality ▶ tap to play from here
Strangers in Our Own Land
Arlie Russell Hochschild
you can see this in sociology this the famous book strangers in our own land ▶ tap to play from here
#1310 George Boss: Marx and the Politics of Need
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Marx and the Politics of Need
George Boss
and today we're going to talk about his book marx and the politics of nid ▶ tap to play from here
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
butler's famous book most famous book on the top topic is gender trouble and this idea of troubling is something i talk about in the book ▶ tap to play from here
#1309 Espen Hammer: Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche
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After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche
Espen Hammer
today we're going to talk about his book after the death of god secularization as a philosophical challenge from kant to nietzsche ▶ tap to play from here
After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche
Espen Hammer
today we're going to talk about his book after the death of god secularization as a philosophical challenge from kant to nietzsche ▶ tap to play from here
Also a History of Philosophy
Jürgen Habermas
habermas who passed away just a couple of weeks ago but who in his very late years wrote a 2000page history of philosophy and religion trying to show the interconnection between philosophy and religion or between faith between knowledge and faith ▶ tap to play from here
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche
in the 125th aphorism of the gay science you have you have this crazy man who runs into the village and cries you know god is dead ▶ tap to play from here
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
of course you see this very famously in the critique of pure reason in which there's a whole chapter devoted to a critique of uh the proofs of the existence of god ▶ tap to play from here
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
of course you see this very famously in the critique of pure reason in which there's a whole chapter devoted to a critique of uh the proofs of the existence of god ▶ tap to play from here
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Immanuel Kant
he published a book called religion within the limits of pure reason when he was very very old so it's a difficult book to read ▶ tap to play from here
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Immanuel Kant
he published a book called religion within the limits of pure reason when he was very very old so it's a difficult book to read ▶ tap to play from here
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
he hardly refers to the sumumbonum in the groundwork and most students of his morals philosophy only read the groundwork ▶ tap to play from here
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
and not the critique of practical reason in which the sumim bonem becomes very central ▶ tap to play from here
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
yeah i i remember reading about uh those ideas from kant when i read the critique of practical reason ▶ tap to play from here
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
a kind of uh philosophical expression and that's what happens in the phenomenology of spirit in 1807 and gradually in the whole system that he starts to develop a little later ▶ tap to play from here
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
and that's what happens in the phenomenology of spirit in 1807 ▶ tap to play from here
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
is expressed in his encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences that he writes you know in the in 1813 14 15 this vast encyclopedic system ▶ tap to play from here
#1308 Stephen Vaisey: The Sociology of Morality and Political Beliefs
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
when jonathan hyde published the righteous mind i mean i was uh a qu uh kind of uh intrigued about it but then i i mean ▶ tap to play from here
#1307 James Tilley & Sara Hobolt - Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain
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Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain
James Tilley and Sara Hobolt
and today we're going to talk about their book tribal politics how brexit divided britain ▶ tap to play from here
#1306 Steve Keen: The Existential Risk of Climate Change, and the War in Iran
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RE
Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down
Steve Keen
last time we talked about some of the topics he explores in his book rebuilding economics from the top down ▶ tap to play from here
#1305 Vanniall: Trans Women in the Sex Industry
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#1304 Michael Wilson: Chimpanzee Behavior, Ecology, Violence, and Human Warfare
0:00 / 63:04
#1303 Charmaine Borg: Sexual Arousal, Sexual Disgust, and Sexual Dysfunction
0:00 / 42:11
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