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
#1329 Pierrick Bourrat: Evolutionary Transitions, Heritability, Adaptation, and Multilevel Selection
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The Major Transitions in Evolution
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry
the book of um menaf smith and sassmarin in ninety uh ninety five the major transition in evolution ▶ tap to play from here
Units of Selection
Javier Suarez and Ann Elizabeth Lloyd
i interviewed dr javier suarez he wrote the book with elizabeth lloyd units of selection ▶ tap to play from here
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby
with this book in ninety two on the other hand i think like we we should be able to uh to um to talk about adaptation as ▶ tap to play from here
#1328 Jon Wisman - Why We Must Work: Economic Freedom, Fulfilling Work, and Workplace Democracy
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Why We Must Work: Economic Freedom, Fulfilling Work and Workplace Democracy
John Wisman
and today we're going to talk about his latest book ▶ tap to play from here
The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology
John Wisman
that this book on work is a sequel to my earlier book on that you interviewed me on which was the origins and dynamics of inequality sex politics and and and ideology ▶ tap to play from here
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
interestingly that example that adam smith makes of the pen factory in the very beginning of the wealth of nations published in seventeen seventysix ▶ tap to play from here
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
there was a book written in the in the nineteen eighties bye uh a a man uh an american psychologist within that uh impossible name it's mahali sist what if he did is he studied what condition humans were happiest in ▶ tap to play from here
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
it's called player piano and it's a book about the technological world becoming so sophisticated that technology replaces all work ▶ tap to play from here
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
who's best known for his book guns terms and steel but he wrote another book published in night in 2005 i believe called collapse ▶ tap to play from here
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
but he wrote another book published in night in 2005 i believe called collapse and that book collapse is about it's a little vignettes of societies in which inequality has soared ▶ tap to play from here
#1327 Tommy Blanchard: Decorative Neuroscience, and the Neuro-Grifters
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Protocols
Andrew Huberman
his book protocols and it seems to already be a very controversial book ▶ tap to play from here
#1326 Christian Tryon: The Evolution of Homo Sapiens, and the Middle to Later Stone Age Transition
0:00 / 39:47
#1325 Philip Ball - The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Philip Ball
today we're going to talk about his latest book his new book actually the man who broke reality niels bohr and the making of modern physics ▶ tap to play from here
Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
Abraham Pais
there are very there are some kind of biographies there was uh rather technical one uh but a very yeah useful one written by abraham pace who was one of the physicists who worked with bohr ▶ tap to play from here
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Abraham Pais
and who also wrote biography of einstein ▶ tap to play from here
#1324 Marlene Zuk - Outsider Animals: Learning from the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives
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#1323 Paula Lavigne: Mulheres Trans em Desportos Femininos
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#1322 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon
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The Cult of CrossFit: A Gym Cults and Box Communities
Katie Rose Hejtmanek
and today we're going to talk about her recent book the cult of crossfit christianity and the american exercise phenomenon ▶ tap to play from here
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
this idea that you can think yourself successful this think and grow rich or like early uh positive psychology or all of that is influenced by this put together kind of american uh theology ▶ tap to play from here
#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
0:00 / 81:40
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
0:00 / 66:50
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
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