Stephen Law
Stephen Law is a philosopher and author. Currently director of philosophy and course director of the certificate of higher education at the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, he was formerly reader in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. He researches primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and essentialism. His popular books include The Philosophy Gym (2003), The Complete Philosophy Files (2000) and Believing Bullshit (2011). He is also editor of Think, the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal. He lives in Oxford.
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Thinking and intelligence
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How to think about weird things
From discs in the sky to faces in toast, learn to weigh evidence sceptically without becoming a closed-minded naysayer
by Stephen Law
Knowledge and reason
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My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
For Wittgenstein, meaning and understanding reside, not in some mysterious private realm, but entirely in the public domain
by Stephen Law