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The News Agents Investigates: The Rise of the Far Right.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2025/09/jaccuse-news-agents-investigates-rise.html", "published_at": "2025-09-14T15:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe401f09b21b", "title": "Breaking The Spell: the bizarre, convoluted, and ultimately absurd defence of belief in a good God", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/breaking-spell-bizarre-convoluted-and.html", "published_at": "2025-01-23T12:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe401fcfff92", "title": "'So What's It All About Then?' The Meaning of Life Explained!", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/so-whats-it-all-about-then-meaning-of.html", "published_at": "2025-01-19T13:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe40209f7da3", "title": "PHILOSOPHERS ON GOD: The Evil God Challenge", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2024/09/philosophers-on-god-evil-god-challenge.html", "published_at": "2024-09-24T12:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4020ab25fe", "title": "Cult of MAGA: The Crisis, The System, and The Enemy", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2024/03/cult-of-maga-crisis-system-and-enemy.html", "published_at": "2024-03-04T17:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4020d79351", "title": "Clarity in Philosophy - And A Terrible Post Modern Argument Against It", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2024/01/clarity-in-philosophy-and-terrible-post.html", "published_at": "2024-01-18T10:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4020dfb715", "title": "The Left’s “Antisemitism Problem” And Their Focus On Israel", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-lefts-antisemitism-problem-and.html", "published_at": "2023-11-10T10:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4021a74e7b", "title": "Why I won't be voting Labour at the next General Election, not even to 'keep the Tories out'.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2023/04/why-i-wont-be-voting-labour-at-next.html", "published_at": "2023-04-03T17:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe402260b4f5", "title": "Prejudice Blindness vs Prejudice Goggles", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2022/12/prejudice-blindness-vs-prejudice-goggles.html", "published_at": "2022-12-09T10:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4022c3b3a6", "title": "Why are we drifting dangerously rightwards as a Nation?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-are-we-drifting-dangerously.html", "published_at": "2022-11-01T12:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4022d2b5b7", "title": "If you believe inequality reduced under Labour, you've fallen for a myth.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2022/10/if-you-believe-inequality-reduced-under.html", "published_at": "2022-10-21T10:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e5-e7f4-72bc-9695-fe4023af0a3f", "title": "Al Jazeera's investigation into Labour dirty tricks and smears against the left. 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THEISM IS A FALSE DILEMMA", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/06/naturalism-vs-theism-is-false-dilemma.html", "published_at": "2020-06-01T11:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2ae-e5aa-7090-afbb-cbd648f9b2c4", "title": "Cummings and rule breaking", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/cummings-and-rule-breaking.html", "published_at": "2020-05-26T12:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2ae-e5aa-7090-afbb-cbd649485879", "title": "The Evil God Challenge - the Academic Paper and the Movie!", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-evil-god-challenge-academic-paper.html", "published_at": "2020-05-24T10:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2ae-e5aa-7090-afbb-cbd6497bcdf8", "title": "A Field Guide To Bullshit - my interview in New Scientist", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-field-guide-to-bullshit-my-interview.html", "published_at": "2020-05-13T10:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2ae-e5aa-7090-afbb-cbd649a703ea", "title": "Philosophy of Happiness - a short introduction", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/philosophy-of-happiness-short.html", "published_at": "2020-05-13T09:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66626b1c4", "title": "Jeff Goldblum, Islam, and Ru Paul's Drag race", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/jeff-goldblum-islam-and-ru-pauls-drag.html", "published_at": "2020-04-25T11:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a6665df098", "title": "Alien abduction: the story of Betty and Barney Hill", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/alien-abduction-story-of-betty-and.html", "published_at": "2020-04-22T21:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a666ba97b2", "title": "Are some conspiracy theories true?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/03/are-some-conspiracy-theories-true.html", "published_at": "2020-03-07T16:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a666e97862", "title": "TEACHERS OF RS AND PHILOSOPHY - I'm available for school events", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2019/11/teachers-of-rs-and-philosophy-im.html", "published_at": "2019-11-11T10:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a667cec859", "title": "My intro to the Battle of Ideas debate on 'Antisemitism Today'", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-intro-to-battle-of-ideas-debate-on.html", "published_at": "2019-02-27T09:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a668b75f80", "title": "A poor way to engage with atheists", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-crappy-way-to-engage-with-atheists.html", "published_at": "2018-06-25T16:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a668cf4975", "title": "Logical Objections to Theism - an introduction", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2018/05/logical-objections-to-theism.html", "published_at": "2018-05-18T12:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a669c22595", "title": "About Stephen Law", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-stephen-law.html", "published_at": "2018-01-30T08:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66abcef80", "title": "Who is Jordan Peterson? I have no idea.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2018/01/who-is-jordan-peterson-my-first.html", "published_at": "2018-01-23T08:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66bb4f211", "title": "Templeton announce new prayer study. But what about their old one?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/12/templeton-announce-new-prayer-study-but.html", "published_at": "2017-12-05T18:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66bc30618", "title": "My Two Mental Habits", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/11/my-two-mental-habits-and-bbcs-rightwing.html", "published_at": "2017-11-30T12:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66bd7b927", "title": "Giles Fraser on Effective Altruism", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/11/giles-fraser-on-effective-altruism.html", "published_at": "2017-11-26T10:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66ccbd90c", "title": "Stress", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-was-listening-to-radio-2-on-way-to.html", "published_at": "2017-10-23T17:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66d21fca8", "title": "Big Picture Labour vs Pragmatic Labour", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/10/big-picture-labour-vs-pragmatic-labour.html", "published_at": "2017-10-20T08:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66df4b846", "title": "Journalists - what are they for, exactly?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/10/things-journalists-should-learn-on-day.html", "published_at": "2017-10-11T12:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66df83d3b", "title": "'My religion/conspiracy theory EXPLAINS WHAT ALTERNATIVE THEORIES CAN'T and is CONSISTENT WITH THE EVIDENCE'", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/09/my-religionconspiracy-theory-explains.html", "published_at": "2017-09-23T12:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66e51553b", "title": "The Left's Antisemitism Problem and Their Focus on Israel", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-lefts-antisemitism-problem-and.html", "published_at": "2017-09-18T08:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66e54ba67", "title": "What is, and isn't, Islamophobic/anti-semitic?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/what-is-and-isnt-islamophicanti-semitic.html", "published_at": "2017-08-18T12:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66f209e6a", "title": "Why we are entitled to point a finger at Islam on oppression and bigotry", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/why-we-are-entitled-to-point-finger-at.html", "published_at": "2017-08-18T09:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66f5bd173", "title": "'But it's the best explanation!' - how bullshit beliefs are justified", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/but-its-best-explanation-how-bullshit.html", "published_at": "2017-08-12T09:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66f65a76d", "title": "The Christian Legal Centre - and their bullshit claims of religious persecution", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-christian-legal-centre-and-their.html", "published_at": "2017-08-07T10:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a66f760264", "title": "My Paper on Natural Kinds (Aust. J Phil 2016)", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-paper-on-natural-kinds-aust-j-phil.html", "published_at": "2017-08-07T09:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a6700625f2", "title": "Letter to my MP regarding excessive 'Roam Like Home' mobile charges", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/08/letter-to-my-mp-regarding-excessive.html", "published_at": "2017-08-02T13:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a67040058e", "title": "Three key points to make when debating the existence of God", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/07/three-key-points-to-make-when-debating.html", "published_at": "2017-07-01T08:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-7ebe-7382-81eb-35a670991dd6", "title": "How to raise good citizens and avoid moral horrors? - Two approaches", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-to-raise-good-citizens-and-avoid.html", "published_at": "2017-06-04T08:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928c6055ce", "title": "The Fib That The Tories Are Now Economically Left", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-attack-lie-that-tories-are-now.html", "published_at": "2017-05-20T09:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928cd9eb04", "title": "Eulogy for my Dad, Bill Law", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/eulogy-for-my-dad.html", "published_at": "2017-05-16T15:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928dcfaa30", "title": "I am speaking at Conference on Religion and Atheism - at Heythrop 14 June", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-am-speaking-at-conference-on-religion.html", "published_at": "2017-05-12T12:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928e372bf8", "title": "A 'cumulative case' for the existence of God? No.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-cumulative-case-for-existence-of-god.html", "published_at": "2017-05-06T18:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928eb8f36f", "title": "Why do religious believers and non-believers see one another as irrational?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-do-religious-believers-and-non.html", "published_at": "2017-04-04T09:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928f9f5fe9", "title": "Picture of me at Oxford Literary Festival today", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/03/picture-of-me-at-oxford-literary.html", "published_at": "2017-03-29T21:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39928fa6a1c1", "title": null, "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/03/i-present-believing-bullshit-at-oxford.html", "published_at": "2017-03-11T14:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399290100773", "title": "So you think I'm like Alain de Botton?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/01/so-you-think-im-like-alain-de-botton.html", "published_at": "2017-01-24T09:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399290e7737b", "title": "Pressing Your Buttons - chpt from my book Believing Bullshit", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/01/pressing-your-buttons-chpt-from-my-book.html", "published_at": "2017-01-21T11:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399290fe18a3", "title": "'Scientism!'", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/01/scientism.html", "published_at": "2017-01-15T12:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399291ecaac0", "title": "Reason vs other methods of influencing belief", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/01/reason-vs-other-methods-of-influencing.html", "published_at": "2017-01-04T12:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399292aa2a5d", "title": "THE MEANING MYSTERY (Wittgenstein on meaning, from my book The Philosophy Gym)", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-meaning-mystery-wittgenstein-on.html", "published_at": "2016-12-22T16:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399293a3f53c", "title": "Oxford Literary Festival event with Prof Peter Atkins", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/12/oxford-literary-festival-event-with.html", "published_at": "2016-12-07T12:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399293f778cc", "title": "Sea of Lies: CFI on Lying Press and Politicians, with Martin Robbins, Marcus Chown, Natalie Fenton", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/11/sea-of-lies-cfi-on-lying-press-and.html", "published_at": "2016-11-05T18:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-3992945a0087", "title": "Jeff Lowder Video", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/10/jeff-lowder-video.html", "published_at": "2016-10-25T13:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399294a6204e", "title": "Chakrabarti, private schools, and hypocrisy", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/10/chakrabarti-private-schools-and.html", "published_at": "2016-10-09T15:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399294e42462", "title": "Results of twitter poll on self-censorship - which, ironically, I ended up self-censoring", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/10/results-of-twitter-poll-on-self.html", "published_at": "2016-10-06T09:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39929528951a", "title": "The X-Claim Argument Against Religious Belief - pre-publication draft", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-x-claim-argument-against-religious.html", "published_at": "2016-07-25T14:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399295b6795a", "title": "'Faith' and 'Hope' are vastly overrated", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/06/faith-and-hope-are-vastly-overrated.html", "published_at": "2016-06-23T14:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-3992966b3a8c", "title": "'That may be true for you, but it's not true for me!'", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/06/that-may-be-true-for-you-but-its-not.html", "published_at": "2016-06-21T09:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39929701f86c", "title": "Are safe spaces a threat to free speech?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/05/are-safe-spaces-threat-to-free-speech.html", "published_at": "2016-05-30T21:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399297078b75", "title": "How to start a prejudice - in six easy steps!", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-to-start-prejudice-in-six-easy-steps.html", "published_at": "2016-05-03T08:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-399297284a1f", "title": "Islamophobia and Anti-semitism - what is, and isn't, bigotry?", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/04/islamophobia-and-anti-semitism-what-is.html", "published_at": "2016-04-27T09:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-3992973779e8", "title": "Wittgensteinian Account of Religious Belief - forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy: pre-publ. draft.", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/04/wittgensteinian-account-of-religious.html", "published_at": "2016-04-12T08:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d2af-f260-72e2-9f18-39929800f27c", "title": "The Tapescrew Letters - audio recording (parody of Xian apologetics)", "url": "https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-tapescrew-letters-audio-recording.html", "published_at": "2016-03-10T20:42:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Explaining Away The Evidence - why it's so tempting when it comes to politics, religion, etc.original ↗
12 Aug 2026
The 'Disparity in Hate': misleading comparison of stats on antisemitism and Islamophobiaoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026

2025

J'accuse! The News Agents Investigates: The Rise of the Far Right.original ↗
14 Sept 2025
Breaking The Spell: the bizarre, convoluted, and ultimately absurd defence of belief in a good Godoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2025
'So What's It All About Then?' The Meaning of Life Explained!original ↗
19 Jan 2025

2024

PHILOSOPHERS ON GOD: The Evil God Challengeoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2024
Cult of MAGA: The Crisis, The System, and The Enemyoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
Clarity in Philosophy - And A Terrible Post Modern Argument Against Itoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2024

2023

The Left’s “Antisemitism Problem” And Their Focus On Israeloriginal ↗
10 Nov 2023
Why I won't be voting Labour at the next General Election, not even to 'keep the Tories out'.original ↗
3 Apr 2023

2022

Prejudice Blindness vs Prejudice Gogglesoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2022
Why are we drifting dangerously rightwards as a Nation?original ↗
1 Nov 2022
If you believe inequality reduced under Labour, you've fallen for a myth.original ↗
21 Oct 2022
Al Jazeera's investigation into Labour dirty tricks and smears against the left. Part 1.original ↗
24 Sept 2022
Ayer on Religious Languageoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2022
Tim O'Neill's Blogpost on my paper 'Evidence, Miracles, and The Existence of Jesus'.original ↗
10 Sept 2022
Evidence, Miracles, and The Existence of Jesusoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2022
Why do atheists think Christians believe unreasonably, if they don't?original ↗
20 May 2022
My Foreword to God and Horrendous Suffering, ed. John Loftusoriginal ↗
18 May 2022
‘I’m not going to answer a hypothetical question…’original ↗
6 May 2022

2021

The Pandora's Box Objection to Skeptical Theism (Int. J.Phil Religion 2015)original ↗
19 Dec 2021
How philosophy can help your business or organisation - two testimonialsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2021
My book The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinkingoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
Why do the British public support moderately left-wing policies, but fail to vote Labour?original ↗
23 Mar 2021
'That May Be True For You, But It's Not True For Me' - Relativism Explainedoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2021
My new Critical Thinking course - ideal for pupils, students, teachers, sceptics.original ↗
6 Feb 2021
Book Zoom sessions with me for your RS or Philosophy classoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2021

2020

Suggesting a new named fallacy: the Non Post Hoc Fallacy (or David Cameron Fallacy)original ↗
24 Dec 2020
Logical Objections to Theism (my chpt in Companion Guide to Atheism and Philosophy)original ↗
28 Nov 2020
The Narrative Fallacy and Alister McGrath on Christianity 'making sense' of thingsoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2020
The Evil God Challenge - the movieoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2020
The Witch Hunters - how shaming accusations of bigotry can be used to shut down legitimate debateoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2020
Debate with Christian apologists last nightoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2020
Naturalism, Evolution, and True Belief (academic paper)original ↗
26 Oct 2020
How To Tell Science from Pseudoscienceoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2020
What is Humanism?original ↗
16 Sept 2020
REASON AND ARGUMENT - my brief-ish introduction to some of the key ideasoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2020
Would it be good to live forever?original ↗
7 Sept 2020
Skeptical Theism and Skepticism About The External World and Past (Philosophy, Supplement 81 on Religious Epistemology)original ↗
3 Sept 2020
THE PANDORA'S BOX OBJECTION TO SKEPTICAL THEISMoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
Charlie Hebdo anniversary and our duty not to cause offenceoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
Schools events for RS philosophy and ethics - online or in person!original ↗
1 Sept 2020
Philosophy and Covidoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2020
Am I Normal?original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Racist and bigoted tropesoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2020
NATURALISM VS. THEISM IS A FALSE DILEMMAoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
Cummings and rule breakingoriginal ↗
26 May 2020
The Evil God Challenge - the Academic Paper and the Movie!original ↗
24 May 2020
A Field Guide To Bullshit - my interview in New Scientistoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
Philosophy of Happiness - a short introductionoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
Jeff Goldblum, Islam, and Ru Paul's Drag raceoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2020
Alien abduction: the story of Betty and Barney Hilloriginal ↗
22 Apr 2020
Are some conspiracy theories true?original ↗
7 Mar 2020

2019

TEACHERS OF RS AND PHILOSOPHY - I'm available for school eventsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2019
My intro to the Battle of Ideas debate on 'Antisemitism Today'original ↗
27 Feb 2019

2018

A poor way to engage with atheistsoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2018
Logical Objections to Theism - an introductionoriginal ↗
18 May 2018
About Stephen Laworiginal ↗
30 Jan 2018
Who is Jordan Peterson? I have no idea.original ↗
23 Jan 2018

2017

Templeton announce new prayer study. But what about their old one?original ↗
5 Dec 2017
My Two Mental Habitsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2017
Giles Fraser on Effective Altruismoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2017
Stressoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2017
Big Picture Labour vs Pragmatic Labouroriginal ↗
20 Oct 2017
Journalists - what are they for, exactly?original ↗
11 Oct 2017
'My religion/conspiracy theory EXPLAINS WHAT ALTERNATIVE THEORIES CAN'T and is CONSISTENT WITH THE EVIDENCE'original ↗
23 Sept 2017
The Left's Antisemitism Problem and Their Focus on Israeloriginal ↗
18 Sept 2017
What is, and isn't, Islamophobic/anti-semitic?original ↗
18 Aug 2017
Why we are entitled to point a finger at Islam on oppression and bigotryoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2017
'But it's the best explanation!' - how bullshit beliefs are justifiedoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
The Christian Legal Centre - and their bullshit claims of religious persecutionoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2017
My Paper on Natural Kinds (Aust. J Phil 2016)original ↗
7 Aug 2017
Letter to my MP regarding excessive 'Roam Like Home' mobile chargesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2017
Three key points to make when debating the existence of Godoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2017
How to raise good citizens and avoid moral horrors? - Two approachesoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2017
The Fib That The Tories Are Now Economically Leftoriginal ↗
20 May 2017
Eulogy for my Dad, Bill Laworiginal ↗
16 May 2017
I am speaking at Conference on Religion and Atheism - at Heythrop 14 Juneoriginal ↗
12 May 2017
A 'cumulative case' for the existence of God? No.original ↗
6 May 2017
Why do religious believers and non-believers see one another as irrational?original ↗
4 Apr 2017
Picture of me at Oxford Literary Festival todayoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2017
https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/03/i-present-believing-bullshit-at-oxford.htmloriginal ↗
11 Mar 2017
So you think I'm like Alain de Botton?original ↗
24 Jan 2017
Pressing Your Buttons - chpt from my book Believing Bullshitoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2017
'Scientism!'original ↗
15 Jan 2017
Reason vs other methods of influencing belieforiginal ↗
4 Jan 2017

2016

THE MEANING MYSTERY (Wittgenstein on meaning, from my book The Philosophy Gym)original ↗
22 Dec 2016
Oxford Literary Festival event with Prof Peter Atkinsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2016
Sea of Lies: CFI on Lying Press and Politicians, with Martin Robbins, Marcus Chown, Natalie Fentonoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2016
Jeff Lowder Videooriginal ↗
25 Oct 2016
Chakrabarti, private schools, and hypocrisyoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2016
Results of twitter poll on self-censorship - which, ironically, I ended up self-censoringoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2016
The X-Claim Argument Against Religious Belief - pre-publication draftoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2016
'Faith' and 'Hope' are vastly overratedoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2016
'That may be true for you, but it's not true for me!'original ↗
21 Jun 2016
Are safe spaces a threat to free speech?original ↗
30 May 2016
How to start a prejudice - in six easy steps!original ↗
3 May 2016
Islamophobia and Anti-semitism - what is, and isn't, bigotry?original ↗
27 Apr 2016
Wittgensteinian Account of Religious Belief - forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy: pre-publ. draft.original ↗
12 Apr 2016
The Tapescrew Letters - audio recording (parody of Xian apologetics)original ↗
10 Mar 2016
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