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Stephen Law

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    Thinking Tools: The Sherlock Holmes Fallacy: Law Thinking tools
    Think 6 (17-18): 219-221. 2008.
    Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
    Informal Logic
  •  13
    Editorial
    Think 1 (3): 5-6. 2003.
  •  114
    Thinking tools 4: How to sound like a guru: Law Thinking tools
    Think 2 (4): 85-87. 2003.
    Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here l explain some of the techniques commonly used by ‘gurus’ to dupe people into thinking they have something profound to say.
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    Editorial
    Think 6 (16): 5. 2008.
  •  100
    Rape is a sex act: Law rape is a sex act
    Think 8 (21): 69-70. 2009.
    In the preceding piece, Timothy Chambers agrees with some feminists that “rape is not a sex act”. Here, I briefly defend the view that, whatever else rape is, it is, indeed, a sexual act. Timothy will reply in another piece
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    Intellectual Black Holes and Bullshit
    Free Inquiry 31. 2011.
    Philosophy of Physics, Miscellaneous
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    Introduction
    Think 13 (36): 5-9. 2014.
    French Philosophy
  •  160
    Thinking tools: The lottery fallacy: Law Thinking tools
    Think 4 (11): 65-66. 2005.
    Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
    Informal Logic
  •  11
    Editorial: Editorial
    Think 4 (12): 5-6. 2006.
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    Thinking Tools: Seductive secrets of the shopping mall: Law Thinking Tools
    Think 3 (8): 53-54. 2004.
    Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. In this installment, we focus, not on faulty reasoning per se, but on an example of how we can be led astray or manipulated without our even realizing what is going on. Our critical faculties are entirely sidestepped!
    Informal Logic
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    Editorial
    Think 5 (13): 5-6. 2006.
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    The Pandora’s box objection to skeptical theism
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (3): 285-299. 2015.
    Skeptical theism is a leading response to the evidential argument from evil against the existence of God. Skeptical theists attempt to block the inference from the existence of inscrutable evils to gratuitous evils by insisting that given our cognitive limitations, it wouldn’t be surprising if there were God-justifying reasons we can’t think of. A well-known objection to skeptical theism is that it opens up a skeptical Pandora’s box, generating implausibly wide-ranging forms of skepticism, inclu…Read more
    Philosophy of ReligionReligious Skepticism