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 800 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.
Dr. Erica Cartmill is Professor of Cognitive Science, Anthropology, and Animal Behavior at Indiana University. She studies the acquisition and evolution of human language. Her work bridges the biological and linguistic subfields and involves both comparative and developmental approaches to communication. She is interested in how the multimodal aspects of communication contribute to and constrain the construction of meaning in spontaneous interaction. She is particularly interested in whether gesture played a role in the origins of human language.
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Dr. Gail Dines is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Dines specializes in the study of pornography. She is CEO of Culture Reframed, a non-profit built to build resilience and resistance in kinds to pornography and hypersexualized media. created to address pornography as a public-health crisis. She is the author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
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Dr. Julia Hermann is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Twente where she works on ectogestative technology, care robots, technomoral change and progress, and new methodologies in the ethics of technology.
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Dr. Walter Scheirer is Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of A History of Fake Things on the Internet.
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