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Believing Bullshit

Stephen Law accuses me of writing a shoddy review … and then responds in kind

July 18, 2013 by Randal

Two years ago I reviewed Stephen Law’s book Believing Bullshit: How not to get sucked into an intellectual black hole. Professor Law provided a response this past Sunday. (Better late than never, right?) Before I engage the review let me stress that I think Stephen Law is a very intelligent philosopher and an amiable chap to boot. I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Believing Bullshit, review, Stephen Law

A link back to my review of Stephen Law, “Believing Bullshit”

June 24, 2013 by Randal

In the discussion of the last few days I have heard some positive references to Stephen Law’s book Believing Bullshit. I was not as sanguine about the book when I reviewed it two years ago for the reasons outlined in my original review here.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Believing Bullshit, Stephen Law

Stephen Law’s Evil God Hypothesis

August 2, 2011 by Randal

There were a number of points that Stephen Law made in his book Believing Bullshit which I didn’t have time to address in my already bloated review. One of those was his so-called “Evil God hypothesis” (henceforth the EGH), a clever, if abortive, attempt to undermine theodicies (see pp. 24-27). First off, what is a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Believing Bullshit, problem of evil, Stephen Law, theodicy

Has Stephen Law been sucked into an intellectual black hole? A Review of Law’s “Believing Bullshit”

August 1, 2011 by Randal

Stephen Law. Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole. Prometheus, 2011, 271 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61614-411-1. In the vein of Carl Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World (Ballantine, 1997) and Michael Shermer’s Why People Believe Weird Things (Holt, 2002), comes this new book by Stephen Law, senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Believing Bullshit, bullshit, critical thinking, epistemology, indoctrination, rationality, reason, skepticism, Stephen Law

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