The Dissenter Creators & Guests

Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. As of 2011, he is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, a co-founder of the German Effective Altruism Foundation, president of the Barbara Wengeler Foundation, and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation. From 2008 to 2009 he served as a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; from 2014 to 2019 he was a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College; from 2019 to 2022 he was awarded a Senior-Forschungsprofessur by the Ministry of Science, Education and Culture. From 2018 to 2020 Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.Metzinger is a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, where he was a member of the board from 1995 to 2008 the president from 2009 to 2011.

Aassistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis

Diana Santos Fleischman is an American evolutionary psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.

Eric Schwitzgebel is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He uses empirical psychology to study the philosophy of mind and the nature of belief.Schwitzgebel studies whether ethicists behave more ethically than others. He is known for having found that more ethics books were missing from academic libraries than other philosophy books.Schwitzgebel received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.

Lee J. Jussim is an American social psychologist. He leads the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University.

Dr. Carole Hooven is a lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.

Cory is a behavioral scientist interested in how social motivations influence human judgment and empirical beliefs.

John Michael Bailey is an American psychologist, behavioural geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation and paraphilia. He maintains that male sexual orientation is most likely established in utero.

Jonathan Anomaly is the Academic Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, & Economics in Quito, Ecuador.

Tania Reynolds is a social psychologist at University of New Mexico.

Nick Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney and a co-director of the Sydney Centre for Language Research. He is a member of the Fighting Truth Decay research node at the Charles Perkins Centre. His research on language, culture, cognition and social life is based on long term field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. His recent books include Language vs. Reality, Consequences of Language, and How We Talk. Nick has published widely in linguistics, anthropology, and cognitive science venues, and has written for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, and Science. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Christopher Kavanagh is a cognitive anthropologist, social psychologist, and host of Decoding the Gurus podcast.

Dr. Chiara Marletto is a theoretical physicist whose research focuses on quantum information theory, condensed-matter physics, quantum biology, and thermodynamics. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.Marletto's first book, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals," was published in 2021.

Michael Muthukrishna is an associate professor of economic psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in England. He is an affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at the LSE's STICERD, technical director of UBC's Database of Religious History, and CIFAR's Azrieli Global Scholar in the Boundaries, Membership and Belonging programme. His main area of interest is the application of research in cultural evolution to public policy.

Musa al-Gharbi is a Sociologist at Columbia University and author of the book, Building on Nietzsche's Prelude.

David is a Risk Governance Analyst at Risk Perception Management and was an Assistant Professor Adjunct in Communications at Université Saint-Louis in Brussels.

Kara Dansky is a feminist, fighting for the sex-based rights of women and girls. Publicly speaking out about the 'gender identity' industry.