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1131: Celebrity Endorsements and a Salesperson's Trick: Law Thinking toolsThink 1 (1): 77-79. 2002.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here we get to grips with two everyday reasoning errors.
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108What's wrong with gay sex?Think 2 (5): 53-68. 2003.Mr Jarvis, a Christian, was asleep in bed, dreaming of the Last Judgement. In his dream, Jarvis found himself seated next to God in a great cloud-swept hall. God had just finished handing down judgement on the drunkards, who were slowly shuffling out of the exit to the left. Angels were now ushering a group of nervous-looking men through the entrance to the right. As the men were assembled before Him, God began to speak
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76Thinking 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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169Thinking 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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140The 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
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119Thinking tools: The straw manThink 6 (16): 75. 2008.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously
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146Thinking tools: The bandwagon fallacyThink 4 (12): 111-111. 2006.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously
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122Thinking Tools 2: Superstition and the Miser's Favourite: Law Thinking toolsThink 1 (2): 99-101. 2002.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here we get to grips with two everyday reasoning errors.
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178Honderich and the curse of epiphenomenalismJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (7-8): 61-70. 2006.Article
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128Thinking tools: The relativist fallacy: Law Thinking toolsThink 3 (9): 57-58. 2005.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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247The Meaning of LifeThink 11 (30). 2012.This is an article that explores the question "what is the meaning of life?" particularly with respect to humanism and theism. It defends a humanist position, and refutes a number of arguments for the conclusion that a meaningful human existence requires the existence of God
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115Is it all relative?Think 1 (2): 69-82. 2002.According to relativists, people who speak simply of what's ‘true’ are naïve. ‘Whose truth?’ asks the relativist. ‘No claim is ever true, period. What's true is always true for someone. It's true relative to a particular person or culture. There's no such thing as the absolute truth on any issue.’ This sort of relativism is certainly popular. For example, many claim that we are wrong to condemn cultures with moral codes different from our own: their moralities are no less valid. Similarly, some …Read more
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273IntroductionCamrbridge Core Philosophy 12 (34): 5-7. 2013.Introduction Stephen Law, Think, FirstView Article.
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85Thinking 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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176Thinking Tools: The Sherlock Holmes Fallacy: Law Thinking toolsThink 6 (17-18): 219-221. 2008.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
