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10Just knowingThe Philosophers' Magazine 56 51-57. 2012.I remain entirely unconvinced that anyone who claims to “just know” that the dead walk among us, or that God exists, knows any such thing. Not only do I think the rest of us have good grounds for doubting their experience, I don’t believe it’s reasonable for them to take their own experience at face value either.
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41Thinking 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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39Thinking 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.
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26Thinking tools 4: How to sound like a guru: Law Thinking toolsThink 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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42Is 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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22Thinking tools: The lottery fallacy: Law Thinking toolsThink 4 (11): 65-66. 2005.Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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108IntroductionCamrbridge Core Philosophy 12 (34): 5-7. 2013.Introduction Stephen Law, Think, FirstView Article.
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21Thinking Tools: Seductive secrets of the shopping mall: Law Thinking ToolsThink 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!
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441The Pandora’s box objection to skeptical theismInternational 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
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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.