Stephen Law

January 11th – 365 Days Of Philosophy Podcast – An Interview With Stephen Law Kylie Sturgess The interview for January is with Stephen Law. http://365daysofphilosophy.libsyn.com/rss Download audio here: January – Interview With Stephen Law Stephen Law (BA, BPhil, DPhil) is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the philosophical journal Think , which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. Professor Law is the author of a number of books, including  The Philosophy Files, The Outer Limits, A Very Short Introduction To Humanism, The War For Children’s Minds  and  Believing Bullshit.  He is also the  Provost for the Centre for Inquiry, UK . He blogs at Stephen Law and  Believing Bullshit , and uses Twitter at https://twitter.com/stephenlaw60 . For this interview, I opened with a question that my students always ...

The Odds of an Evil God & The Truth of Moral Questions For podcast go here .  By Alan Litchfield Stephen Law Stephen Law Discusses His Interesting Thoughts on Morality, His “Evil God Hypothesis,” and His Views on Religion Philosopher Stephen Law challenges theists to explain , “. . . why the hypothesis that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and all-good god should be considered significantly more reasonable than the hypothesis that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and all-evil god. Theists typically dismiss the evil god hypothesis out of hand because of the problem of good – there is surely too much good in the world for it to be the creation of such a being. But then why doesn’t the problem of evil provide equally good grounds for dismissing belief in a good god?” Law is the editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK. He has published several books and is senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of Lond...

There's a podcast of my interview on Australia's SBS, about The War For Children's Minds , here .

If you want to download my interview with Nigel Warburton on God and the Problem of Evil on to your ipod, search for "Philosophy Bites" on itunes. There are lots of very good short interviews with philosophers available there for free. Incidentally, Nigel tells me that last week these interviews were ranked very high on US itunes (something amazing, like number 20 out of all downloads)