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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.

• ON THE THRUSTUPONEDNESS OF GREATNESS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I have a brother who’s retired now, but he spent his career teaching recreation technology, whatever that is, at a community college in the next province over. Sometime mid-career, there was a faculty strike. A couple days into the strike… Read More ›

• DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 24, 2020 • ( 1 )

  If you ask me what’s beauty, or ugliness, or maybe even the distinction between right from wrong, I likely wouldn’t be able to tell you, except to say I know it when I see it. That’s why, as I’ve already… Read More ›

• ROADS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Save for recent immigrants, there are no African Americans. Percentages have nothing to do with it. You’re black in American just in case the rest of us think you are. You’re white in America just in case you can pass… Read More ›

• MY BOOK REPORT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I take it we’ve all heard of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. That it was an anti-Semitic forgery and yada yada yada. But how many of us had actually read it? I certainly hadn’t. Until last night…. Read More ›

• DECOLONIZING THE CLASSROOM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 22, 2020 • ( 6 )

  Earlier this morning, Thursday, November 19, 2020, the faculty here at the University of Lethbridge received a rather puzzling missive. We’re being told that the University would like us to cooperate in “the decolonization of the classroom.”  Not having the… Read More ›

• CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 21, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Presented at the Seventh World Conference on Metaphysics at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, Oct 24-27, 2018 ABSTRACT: By a political theodicy is meant an attempt to harness our theological resources to ameliorate the evil we do and suffer… Read More ›

• WHAT DO THE HOLOCAUST, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE FILIOQUE HAVE IN COMMON?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 20, 2020 • ( 4 )

  Abstract: In this paper we offer a conjecture as to how it’s possible that people of identical epistemic integrity – by which we mean pretty close to none – can and do nonetheless arrive at polar opposite views about history,… Read More ›

• A CARTESIAN MEDITATION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  For twelve summers, until this one, I’ve spent the lion’s share of April to September in a village overlooking the Amalfi Coast. If the borders reopen by next April, I’ll be able to carry on as before. But if not… Read More ›

• PLAYING OUR V-CARDS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  With so many people playing their victim cards, it’s almost impossible to know whether everyone’s a victim, none are, or only some are. The current claimants include Blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Muslims in general, indigenous, Jews, women, LGBT+, trans-people … Those… Read More ›

• THE TRUTH ABOUT JESHUA OF NAZARETH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  People think that Moses and Jesus and Mohammed must have been incredibly charismatic. I don’t know about Moses or Mohammed. Never met them. But I can tell you that Jeshua of Nazareth was anything but. He was dour, in just… Read More ›