Stephen Law

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 for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. a publication sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and published by Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, became the provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK in 2008, and in 2023 was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Life Law was born December 12, 1960 in Cambridge, England, and attended Long Road Sixth Form College. After being "asked to leave", he began his working life as a postman. During the four years he worked as a postman, Law spent much of his time reading, thinking, and writing, during which he developed an interest in philosophy.

Philosophy Law has published both a variety of academic papers and popular, introductory books. He conducts research in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and religion. He developed the Evil God challenge, which he has employed in debates, as he did in his debate against William Lane Craig,

Works The Philosophy Files 1 (2000) The Philosophy Files 2 (2006) (formerly called The Outer Limits) The Outer Limits: More Mysteries from the Philosophy Files (2003) The Philosophy Gym (2003) The Xmas Files (2003) The War For Children's Minds (2006) Philosophy (Eyewitness Companion Guides) (2007) translated also into Hungarian (Filozófia, 2008) The Great Philosophers (2008) Israel, Palestine and Terror (2008) Really, Really Big Questions (2009) A Very Short Introduction to Humanism (2011) Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (2011) Prometheus Books: New York.