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32Thinking Tools: ‘Well I'm not Going to Answer a Hypothetical Question…’Think 2 (6): 93-93. 2004.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here we look at a particularly underhand way of avoiding answering a question. It is popular with politicians around the world
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10Thinking tools: The fallacy of affirming the consequent: Law Thinking toolsThink 3 (7): 31-32. 2004.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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9Thinking tools. Fallacy: Division: Law thinking tools • folioThink 8 (21): 83-83. 2009.Thinking tools is a regular feature that offers tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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12Thinking tools: The genetic fallacy: Law Thinking toolsThink 5 (13): 23-24. 2006.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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13Thinking tools: Suppressed evidence: Law thinking toolsThink 7 (20): 105-105. 2008.Thinking tools is a regular feature that offers tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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11Thinking tools 3: Flying saucers and open minds: Law Thinking toolsThink 1 (3): 65-68. 2003.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here I tell a cautionary tale about flying saucers and take a brief look at the virtues of ‘open-mindedness’.
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61Could a Machine Think?: Law Could a machine think?Think 1 (1): 55-65. 2002.The year is 2100. Geena is the proud new owner of Emit, a state-of-the-art robot. She has just unwrapped him, the packaging strewn across the dining room floor. Emit is designed to replicate the outward behaviour of a human being down to the last detail . Emit responds to questions in much the same way humans do. Ask him how he feels and he will say he has had a tough day, has a slight headache, is sorry he broke that vase, and so on. Geena flips the switch at the back of Emit's neck to ‘on’. Em…Read more
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23Thinking tools: Weak analogy: Law Thinking ToolsThink 5 (15): 59-60. 2007.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously
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15Thinking tools: The gambler's fallacy: Law Thinking toolsThink 2 (5): 51-52. 2003.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here we get to grips with an everyday reasoning error: the gambler's fallacy.
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554Evidence, Miracles, and the Existence of JesusFaith and Philosophy 28 (2): 129-151. 2011.The vast majority of Biblical historians believe there is evidence sufficient to place Jesus’ existence beyond reasonable doubt. Many believe the New Testamentdocuments alone suffice firmly to establish Jesus as an actual, historical figure. I question these views. In particular, I argue (i) that the three most popular criteria by which various non-miraculous New Testament claims made about Jesus are supposedly corroborated are not sufficient, either singly or jointly, to place his existence bey…Read more
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21Thinking tools. Fallacy: Two wrongs make a right: Law thinking toolsThink 7 (19): 71-71. 2008.Thinking tools is a regular feature that offers tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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32The God of Eth: Law The God of EthThink 3 (9): 13-26. 2005.A dialogue investigating whether the usual religious defences of belief in God are really up to the job