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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I specialize in philosophy of war, game theory, contractarianism, and theodicy (the Problem of Evil). I am bald, fat, and ugly, but my wife loves me, so I don't care.

• THE ALMANAC AND THE NUMEROSITY OF SEXES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 20, 2026 • ( 0 )

  In this entry I want to take issue with some of my otherwise-fellow travellers on their understanding of science. On two fronts. The first is about something they call ‘the scientific method’. And the second is about what they think… Read More ›

• FROM THE LET’S-SETTLE-THIS-ONCE-AND-FOR-ALL FILE: THE TRANS ISSUE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 19, 2026 • ( 0 )

  If, as its etymology suggests, by ontology were meant the study of being, it wouldn’t have much to say, because being is an unanalysable primitive. That is, if you don’t know what it is for something to be, then I… Read More ›

• AN OPEN LETTER TO MY FELLOW SAFS TRAVELLERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 1, 2026 • ( 1 )

  You’re going to have to bear with me. Why? Because for what follows I’ll be trading in my SAFS hat for my philosopher’s one. And – and I’m sorry about this folks – sometimes philosophy, or at least good philosophy,… Read More ›

• LIVING WITH THE JUDGMENT OF OTHERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 21, 2025 • ( 0 )

  I’m a lone gunman, and I kill someone because and only because he’s black, or Indian, or Jewish, or Palestinian. Have I committed genocide? Clearly not. Suppose there’s a number of us, and we kill a number of people because… Read More ›

• THEOLOGICAL IRRELEVANTISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 21, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Two goldfish swimming in a fish bowl. One says to the other, “Do you think it’s possible that there’s someone dropping that food for us, aerating the water, turning the light and off, and so on?” “Well,” answers the other… Read More ›

• WELL, THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 17, 2025 • ( 1 )

  WHY THIS RATHER THAN THAT? As any mother of a small child can tell you, any answer to a why question invites a why to that, and then another to that one, and so on, until the child either declares… Read More ›

• THERE SHOULD BE A LAW

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  It’s a well-known fact that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. But it’s a little-known fact that he did so not because Kennedy was the President of the United States but because he had… Read More ›

• POLITICAL ECONOMY MADE SIMPLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 23, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Paying $3.99 for diapers instead of $4.19 gives Mom 20 cents more she can spend on lean ground beef instead of mostly filler. And that’s a good thing for kids. But governments need to fund themselves, and the ‘fairest’ way… Read More ›

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  By some accounts the war between Palestinians and Zionists has been going on since 1947, by others since ’67. But by all accounts it’s the war that’s never going to end. There’ve been battles: ’48, ’56, ’67, ’73. Coupled with… Read More ›

• GIVING NEW MEANING TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 22, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The Bible isn’t a book. It’s a collection of several books. Wokeism isn’t one view. It’s a collection of several views. What unites them is what unites the collection of people who hold them. Something like a religion. First you… Read More ›