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Stephen Law (born 1960) is an English philosopher. He is currently Director of the Certificate of Higher Education and Director of Philosophy at The Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Law was previously Reader in Philosophy and Head of Department of Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, until its closure in June 2018. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and published by the Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and in 2008 became the provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK. In 2023 he became a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Life Law was born 12 December 1960 in Cambridge, England, and attended Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. However, having been "asked to leave", he began his working life as a postman. At 24 he successfully managed to persuade City University in London to accept him for the BSc in philosophy, despite his lack of A levels. There he managed to achieve a first-class honours, allowing him to move on to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for a BPhil in philosophy. He was also for three years a junior research fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. Law lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and two daughters. Philosophy Law has published both a variety of academic papers and more popular, introductory books (including three children's philosophy books). Law has debated many Christian apologists and theologians. He developed the Evil God Challenge thought experiment. Works The Philosophy Files 1 (2000) ISBN 1-84255-053-5 The Philosophy Files 2 (2006) (formerly called The Outer Limits) ISBN 1-84255-525-1 The Outer Limits: More Mysteries from the Philosophy Files (2003) ISBN 1-84255-062-4 The Philosophy Gym (2003) ISBN 0-7472-3271-7 The Xmas Files (2003) ISBN 0-297-84722-8 The War For Children's Minds (2006) ISBN 0-415-37855-9 Philosophy (Eyewitness Companion Guides) (2007) ISBN 1-4053-1763-9 translated also into Hungarian (Filozófia, 2008) The Great Philosophers (2008) ISBN 1-84724-398-3 Israel, Palestine and Terror (2008) ISBN 0-82649-793-4 Really, Really Big Questions (2009) ISBN 0-75341-781-2 A Very Short Introduction to Humanism (2011) ISBN 0-19-955364-5 Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (2011) Prometheus Books: New York. ISBN 1-61614-411-4 References External links Official website. Discover the Stephen Law popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stephen Law books.
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Justice Corrupted
Ted Cruz. . . with liberty and justice for some. The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, ...
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Hot Springs
Stephen HunterThe undisputed master of the tough thriller, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter delivers an “exciting and intelligent” (The Wall Street Journal) masterpiece set in 19...
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Stephen L. Casson v. Linda E. Hornberger
Supreme Court of Delaware1) This matter originated with a request for child support filed by the petitionerappellee, Linda E. Hornberger ("Wife"). A hearing was held on August 9, 1989 in the Family Court o...
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The Physics Book
DKLearn about the Big Bang theory, astrophysics and gravity in The Physics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and e...
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Dinners with Ruth
Nina TotenbergCelebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and lifeaffirming relationships, including her beautiful friendsh...
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Making Our Democracy Work
Stephen BreyerThe Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected ju...
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
Stephen HarriganThe author of the bestselling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield y...
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I Dissent
Debbie LevyGet to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgin the first picture book about her lifeas she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!Supreme Court ...
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The Roberts Court
Marcia CoyleFor years, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has been at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Here, the muchhonored, expert Supreme Court reporter Marcia Coy...
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Colour Bar
Susan WilliamsSir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial ...
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Costovation
Stephen Wunker & Jennifer Luo LawCutting costs is a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens to innovation? How can you stay competitive and satisfy customers?This book's re...
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Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit
Piers MorganPiers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent surely a role he was made for? And with unprecedented access to people, p...
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The Shadow Lamp
Stephen LawheadThe quest for answersand ultimate survivalhinges on finding the cosmic link between the Skin Map, the Shadow Lamp, and the Spirit Well.The search for the map of blue symbols began ...
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True Blue
Stephen Friend, Terry Turchie & Miranda DevineAs seen on Huckabee A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America.Stephen Friend had hi...
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The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade
Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong & George TruettA thrilling, behindthescenes account of the revolutionary Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling.The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a frontrow seat to the inner workings of the Supre...
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The Skin Map
Stephen LawheadIt is the ultimate quest for the ultimate treasure. Chasing a map tattooed on human skin. Across an omniverse of intersecting realities. To unravel the future of the future.Kit Liv...
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Active Liberty
Stephen BreyerA brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to prese...
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Becoming RBG
Debbie LevyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Supreme Court justice Ruth Bad...
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The Hole
Hye-young Pyun & Sora Kim-RussellWinner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature...
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The Science of Liberty
Timothy Ferris“Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair.” The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, awardwinning aut...
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The Black Rood
Stephen R. Lawhead“LAWHEAD KNOWS HOW TO SPIN A TALE.”BooklistIn a time of legends and heroes, blood and mystery, one man will carry on his family’s destiny as he sets upon a dangerous and glorious q...
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Vigilante
Stephen J. CannellIn the last novel by acclaimed producer and New York Times bestselling author Stephen J. Cannell, LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens investigate a crime wi...
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The Texas Rangers
Mike CoxTexas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep sett...
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Murder Crossed Her Mind
Stephen SpotswoodThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The latest actionpacked installment in the Nero Award–winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tr...
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Rather Die Fighting
Frank Blaichman & Martin GilbertFrank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that h...
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In Your Defence
Sarah Langford'As thrilling as a detective novel.' The Times'Powerful, moving and often captivating.' Financial Times'A compelling read for anyone who cares about fairness, justice and humanity....
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On the Grind
Stephen J. CannellOn the heels of Three Shirt Deal, a New York Times bestseller, comes an electrifying new thriller from Stephen J. Cannell in which Lt. Shane Scully is accused of evidence tampering...
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Injustices
Ian MillhiserNow with a new epilogue an unprecedented and unwavering history of the Supreme Court showing how its decisions have consistently favored the moneyed and powerful. Few American inst...
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Grace in All Simplicity
Robert N. Cahn & Chris QuiggAn enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, tragedy, and triumph.How do the remarka...
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One Under
Graham HurleyTwo crimes, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love...From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADA man is chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tr...
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Sheila Mason v. George Stephen Mason
Court of Appeals of UtahCROCKETT, Chief Justice: Plaintiff Sheila Mason instituted this separate action to renew a judgment previously entered in supplemental proceedings in the divorce action between the...
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Blood on Their Hands
Mandy MatneyThe highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matn...
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Julie Dunleavy v. Stephen A. Miller
Court of Appeals of New YorkWe granted certiorari to review the defendantpetitioners contention that New Mexico should withdraw adherence to the "sudden emergency" doctrine in negligence cases and discontinue...
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Western Approaches
Graham HurleyA body. A policeman. Over the edge...The launch of a stunning crime series from the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADNo one liked Jake Kinsey. A rich man, he turned up out of now...
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In Re Marriage of Sharyne and Stephen B. Stephen B.
Second Appellate District, Division Five Court of Appeal of CaliforniaThis is an appeal from an order granting a new trial pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 904.1 after the jury returned a verdict for the defendant State of California (here...
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Deadlight
Graham Hurley'There is no one writing better police procedurals today.' Daily TelegraphA twentyyearold crime throws DI Joe Faraday into the violent legacy of the Falklands War...Freshly promote...
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The Supermajority
Michael WaldmanA “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous pol...
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Impact Statement
Bob HalloranAs the biggest criminal trial since the Boston Strangler draws nearer, the public’s fascination with the life and crimes of mob boss Whitey Bulger continues to heat up. Many storie...
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Impact Statement
Bob HalloranNo one can deny that mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are two of the most brutal killers in American historynot even the two gangsters themselves. B...
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Taking On Big Pharma
Julius Getman & Terri LeClercqThe battle between Big Pharma and scientific integrity Largerthanlife, creative, and fiercely ambitious, Dr. Charlie Bennett has a long history of revealing dangerous side eff...
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fa...
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The Court and the World
Stephen BreyerIn this original, farreaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world ...
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Selected Poems and Letters
Arthur Rimbaud, Jeremy Harding & John SturrockA phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5year reign as the e...