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 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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Mar 28, 2019 • 50min

#39 Vera Gomes: Doença Inflamatória do Intestino e Síndrome do Intestino Irritável

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT A Vera Gomes sofre de doença inflamatória do intestino, neste caso colite ulcerosa, e é uma ativista a tentar sensibilizar para este tipo de condições de saúde, em Portugal, mas também no resto do mundo. Para o efeito, ela tem um blogue, em português, Escadinhas do Quebra Costas, no qual escreve sobre estas doenças, e também tenta mostrar às pessoas através da sua própria experiência como é viver com uma condição deste tipo. Neste episódio, falamos sobre a experiência dela a lidar com a colite ulcerosa; o que é que a doença inflamatória da intestino (DII), e como se distingue do síndrome do intestino irritado (SII); de que maneiras a DII pode afetar a vida pessoal e profissional das pessoas que dela padecem; a dificuldade de diagnóstico; a petição que está a ser avaliada na Assembleia da República com propostas para melhorar as condições de vida destes doentes; e como podem ser alvos fáceis de propaganda vinda das medicinas e terapias alternativas. -- Vera Gomes suffers from inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis in her case, and she’s an activist who tries to raise awareness about these health conditions, in Portugal but also in the rest of the world. She’s the author of a blog, Escadinhas do Quebra Costas, in which she writes about these diseases, and also tries to showcase, through her own experience, how it is to live with a condition like this. In this episode, we talk about her personal experience while dealing with ulcerative colitis; what is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and how we can distinguish it from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); in what ways IBD can affect the personal and professional lives of people who suffer from it; the difficulty in making a diagnosis; the petition that is being evaluated at the Republican Assembly (in Portugal) with proposals to improve the life conditions of these patients; and how they can be easy targets of propaganda coming from alternative medicine and therapies. -- Blogue Escadinhas do Quebra Costas: https://www.wook.pt/livro/a-vida-e-um-sopro-miguel-mealha-estrada/21607840 Associação Portuguesa da Doença Inflamatória do Intestino: http://www.apdi.org.pt/ -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

Mar 23, 2019 • 50min

#38 Monique Borgerhoff Mulder: Evolutionary Anthropology, Gender Roles, Sexual Selection

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, and received a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. After a post doc at the Evolution and Human Behavior Program at the University of Michigan, she joined the UC Davis Anthropology (Evolutionary Wing) faculty, where she is now a Distinguished Professor. Professor Borgerhoff Mulder is a human behavioral ecologist (HBE) working on projects relating to life history, inequality, natural resource management, and patterned cultural variation. Here, we talk about what is Evolutionary Anthropology; the conciliation between Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavioral Ecology; the role of biology and culture in determining gender roles; how the studies done with the Pimbwe add nuance to the study of gender roles; the importance of sexual selection in the creation and exaggeration of sexual dimorphisms; what factors influence reproductive skew in humans; the interaction between mating, parenting and subsistence in the behavior directed at offspring; how the number of mates and the number of years spent with each mate influence fitness; mate selection in different ecological conditions; the problem with romanticizing hunter-gatherer and prehistorical peoples. -- A Dra. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder teve formação como antropóloga social na Universidade de Edinburgh, e recebeu um doutoramento pela Universidade de Northwestern. Após um pós-doutoramento no Evolution and Human Behavior Program da Universidade de Michigan, juntou-se à faculdade de Antropologia (Ramo Evolutivo) da UC Davis, onde é agora Professora Honorária. A Professora Borgerhoff Mulder é uma ecologista comportamental humana, trabalhando em projetos relacionados com história de vida, desigualdade, gestão de recursos naturais, e variação cultural padronizada. Aqui, falamos sobre o que é a Antropologia Evolutiva; a conciliação entre a Psicologia Evolutiva e a Ecologia Comportamental Humana; o papel da biologia e da cultura na determinação dos papéis de género; como os estudos feitos na tribo dos Pimbwe dão nuance ao estudo dos papéis de género; a importância da seleção sexual na criação e exagero das dismorfias sexuais; que fatores influenciam a reprodução assimétrica nos humanos; a interação entre acasalamento, parentalidade e subsistência no comportamento dirigido à prole; como é que o número de parceiros e o número de anos partilhados com cada parceiro influenciam o fitness; seleção de parceiro em diferentes condições ecológicas; o problema com a romantização dos caçadores-coletores e povos pré-históricos. -- Follow Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder’s work: Faculty page: http://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/people/fzborger Her books: https://www.amazon.com/Monique-Borgerhoff-Mulder/e/B001H6U2MM -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHIL

Mar 22, 2019 • 2h 9min

#154 Robert McCauley: Cognitive Science of Religion, Culture, Cognition, Evolution, and Ritual

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Robert McCauley is the William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, at Emory University. Dr. McCauley is a professor of philosophy, psychology, religion, and anthropology who is a pioneer in the cognitive science of religion. He is also the author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and of Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion as well as the co-author with E. Thomas Lawson of both Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms and Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. Dr. McCauley is also the editor of The Churchlands and Their Critics and the co-editor with Harvey Whitehouse of Mind and Religion. In this episode, we go through some of the basics of the cognitive science of religion, and also how it goes through addressing the study of religion in its biological, cognitive/psychological and cultural aspects. We start by defining cognitive psychology of religion, and its methods. We then address the relationship between biology and culture, and how to go from cognition to culture. We talk briefly about some of the major cognitive bases of religion, and the role that rituals play in religion. Dr. McCauley also goes through a slide that summarizes the evolutionary approaches that we have to the study of religion, including natural selection, sexual selection, group selection, and how they might operate at the level of genetics, individuals and groups. And we finish off by talking about the aspects in which religion is intuitive to people, and why science is so counterintuitive, and also the relationship between science and religion. Time Links: 01:11 What is the cognitive science of religion? 12:24 The limitations of pure cultural approaches 19:00 The relationship between biology and culture 24:47 How to get from cognition to culture, and from culture to cognition 35:21 How language might influence the way we perceive the world 47:19 The cognitive bases of religion 1:00:04 Religion is not a special human cultural phenomenon completely separate from the others 1:08:10 The importance of ritual in religion, and its function 1:26:14 The issue with interpretation in the study of religion 1:33:06 Evolutionary approaches to religion 1:46:45 Why religion is natural, and science is not 1:54:54 Is science a sociocultural construct? 1:57:49 Are science and religion compatible with one another? 2:05:16 Follow Dr. McCauley’s work! -- Follow Dr. McC

Mar 22, 2019 • 1h 29min

#37 David F. Lancy: Children's Play and Learning in Traditional and WEIRD Societies

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. David F. Lancy is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He is the author/editor of several books on childhood and culture, including Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) and Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010). Here, we talk about children’s play as a human universal; teaching behavior from adults in different cultures and ecological conditions; children’s acquisition of language and motherese; what children naturally seek to learn and what they can learn just through observation, imitation, and emulation; the differences between parents’ behavior toward children learning in traditional and WEIRD societies; gender roles; the role of alloparenting in traditional societies; and the relationship between learning impairments and infanticide. -- O Dr. David F. Lancy é Professor Emérito de Antropologia na Utah State University. É o autor/editor de vários livros sobre infância e cultura, incluindo Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) e Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010). Aqui, falamos sobre a brincadeira nas crianças como universal humano; o comportamento de ensino da parte dos adultos em diferentes culturas e condições ecológicas; a aquisição de língua por parte das crianças e o “motherese”; o que as crianças naturalmente procuram aprender e o que podem aprender através da observação, imitação e emulação; as diferenças entre o comportamento dos pais em relação à aprendizagem das crianças em sociedades tradicionais e WEIRD; papéis de género; o papel do “alloparenting” nas sociedades tradicionais; e a relação entre défices de aprendizagem e infanticídio. -- Follow Dr. Lancy’s work: Faculty page: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/authors/239709#iW28x5caQADeAqq0.97 His Psychology Today blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/benign-neglect His books: https://www.amazon.com/David-F.-Lancy/e/B001HP196G -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

Mar 21, 2019 • 1h 12min

#153 Jessica Pierce: Animal Morality, Animal Ethics, and Veganism

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist, philosopher, and writer. She currently has a loose affiliation with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Denver, but considers herself mostly independent. She has previously worked variously at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Randolph-Macon Women's College, having studied at the University of Virginia, Harvard Divinity School and Scripps College. Early in her career, she focused on questions of human health and the environment, co-authoring Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business (Oxford, 2000) and The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care (Oxford, 2004). Since the 2000s, much of her work has focused on human relationships with animals. She collaborated with Marc Bekoff for Wild Justice (Chicago, 2010), and authored The Last Walk (Chicago, 2012), Run, Spot, Run (Chicago, 2016), and The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age (2017). In this episode, we talk about animal ethics. First, we focus on the biological bases of morality and their importance to animal ethics, and some aspects of animal psychology that might be particularly relevant to the discussion, like consciousness and empathy. In the second part of the interview, we talk about specific topics, like animal research and testing in science, animal conservation in zoos and aquaria, and the food industry and veganism. Finally, Dr. Pierce gives us an overview of the research she is doing with Dr. Marc Bekoff for a new book, that is tentatively titled “A Dogs’ World”, and also a short teaser to a book that she will release next month, “Unleashing Your Dog”. Time Links: 01:20 The importance of biology, comparative and evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience to animal ethics 04:12 The aspects of animal psychology that are relevant to ethics 10:10 Is consciousness important? 13:23 The ethical implications of knowing how morality works in other animals 21:13 About empathy 26:10 Are parental care and communal nursing moral behaviors? 29:14 What is the legal and moral status that we should attribute to animals? 33:22 Animal research and testing in science 40:13 Animal conservation in zoos and aquaria 46:42 The food industry, veganism, and lab meat 56:07 About Dr. Pierce’s upcoming book, A Dogs’ World, and how dogs would fare in a world without humans 1:06:46 And her new book coming out next month, Unleashing Your Dog 1:09:47 Follow Dr. Pierce’s work! &nbsp

Mar 21, 2019 • 40min

#36 Jacy Reese: The End of Animal Farming, Veganism, Animal Welfare, Enviromentalism

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Jacy Reese is the co-founder of the Sentience Institute, alongside Kelly Witwicki, as well as its Research Director. This year he will release the book The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building An Animal-Free Food System, where he outlines an evidence-based roadmap to a humane, ethical, efficient food system where slaughterhouses are obsolete. Here, we talk about veganism and animal welfare; effective altruism applied to veganism; the relation between veganism and environmentalism; absurd claims and lies spread by many vegan activities and that undermine the spreading of the message and give veganism a bad image; the science behind veganism; animal testing; animal farming; lab meat; the Sentience Institute; and Jacy’s upcoming book, The End of Animal Farming. -- Jacy Reese é o cofundador do Sentience Institute, juntamente com Kelly Witwicki, assim como o seu Diretor de Investigação. Este ano ele irá lançar o livro The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building An Animal-Free Food System, onde ele apresenta um caminho baseado na evidência para um sistema alimentar mais humano, ético e eficiente, no qual os matadouros se tornam obsoletos. Aqui, falamos sobre veganismo e bem-estar animal; altruísmo efetivo aplicado ao veganismo; a relação entre veganismo e ambientalismo; afirmações absurdas e mentiras espalhadas por muitos ativistas e que minam a divulgação da mensagem e dão uma má imagem ao veganismo; a ciência por detrás do veganismo; testes em animais; criação de animais de consumo; carne de laboratório; o Sentience Institute; e o livro prestes a sair do Jacy, The End of Animal Farming. -- Follow Jacy’s work: Sentience Institute website: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/ Its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sentienceinstitute/ Its Twitter handle: @SentienceInst Book The End of Animal Farming: https://www.amazon.com/End-Animal-Farming-Entrepreneurs-Animal-Free/dp/0807019453 Jacy’s Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmbVphZKYc His personal website: http://jacyreese.com/ And his Twitter handle: @jacyreese -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

Mar 20, 2019 • 1h 2min

Leda Cosmides Part 3: Applied Evolutionary Psychology (Politics, Human Relationships)

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