Stephen Law

Pre-publication draft of an essay I wrote for IAI, forthcoming.

Often, when we’re presented with strong evidence that our belief is false, we can easily change our mind.

I recently came across this tweeted infographic, which is used to draw a conclusion I have also come across several times.

Just listened to The News Agents Investigates podcast on rise of far right, & I was not particularly surprised to find the left's (I think) very plausible explanation for the rise of the right got no mention at all, the issue being framed instead entirely…

Could the universe be the creation of a supremely powerful and wicked deity?

According to some, questions about the meaning of life are inextricably bound up with questions about God and religion.

Jack Symes interviews me on The Evil God Challenge for his book Philosophers on God.

This is a pre-publication draft of a piece that appeared under a lightly different title in a recent Byline Times supplement on Trump, available here.

A common Post Modern defence of unclarity in philosophy is that e.g. some boundaries are vague/unclear.

(reposting of my 2017 article) I have recently been engaged in a very interesting discussion on Facebook about the Left's supposed antisemitism and Israel problem.

I have always voted Labour, and have often been a member of the Party, campaigning and canvassing for them.

Both these things *can* be true: 1.

Tony Benn: is he stopped clock here (correct by lucky accident), or right on the money?

If you believe inequality reduced under Labour, you've fallen for a myth.

After Part 1 of Al Jazeera's three part investigation 'The Labour Files' into Labour Party dirty tricks and smears against the Left, Michael Crick Comments.

Here's a first draft article for THINK.

A while back I wrote a paper on the existence of Jesus.

A while back I wrote a paper on the existence of Jesus.

How reasonable is it for the religious to believe the central tenets of their respective religions?

Book is here.

Politicians are, of course, skilled at dodging questions.

(Prepublication draft of paper published in Int.

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Centrists, like Blair, who argue Labour must return to centrist policies to have any chance of winning again, have a problem with polling that shows moderately left-leaning Corbyn-style policies (e.g. free university tuition, free childcare, nationalised…

According to the relativist, people who speak simply of what’s ‘true’ are naïve.