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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.

• CONVOLUTION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 19, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The fallacy of self-exclusion is an old saw in philosophy. Common example? Intolerance of intolerance. Or, “There’s no place for hate at the University of Fill-in-the-Blank!”, except of course for our hatred of haters. Or, “Our mandate is a university… Read More ›

• RUSSIA, UKRAINE, CALIFORNIA AND BRAZIL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Trade relations are transitive. If America trades with Brazil and Brazil trades with Russia, then America just is trading with Russia. So if America doesn’t want to trade with Russia, it has to tell Brazil, “Either you can trade with… Read More ›

• CRITICAL RACE THEORY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 18, 2023 • ( 0 )

  By Critical Race Theory (CRT) is meant a) an analysis of the concept of race such that b) race will turn out to be a, if not the, prime determinant of social stratification. In that sense CRT cannot but be… Read More ›

• I GET IT, BUT …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 16, 2023 • ( 1 )

  A young person, who’s been rejected all his life by the guys for not being guy enough, finally gets up the courage to present as a woman, only to be rejected by women for still being too guy. She’s walking… Read More ›

• THE VERTICAL MOSAIC

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  EDI commissars are trained to notice who are under-represented in positions of privilege – Blacks in the US, Indigenous in Canada – but not the logical complement, namely the over-represented. Who are the latter? Well, white males certainly. But also… Read More ›

• MANDATORY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 15, 2023 • ( 5 )

  On the surface this latest addition to woke Newspeak would seem to be an oxymoron. But this might be too quick. A conscript is a conscript, but he does have an opportunity to learn a trade. And compulsory education –… Read More ›

• A CONJECTURE ABOUT CRT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 13, 2023 • ( 3 )

  People often wonder why the so-called ‘right’ is so hostile to Critical Race Theory (CRT), even and especially as it’s taught at the primary or secondary level. One answer might not be all that obscure. CRT presents America as a… Read More ›

• DIVERSITY AND ORTHODOXY (Repost from Nov 28, 2020)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 13, 2023 • ( 1 )

  Scene One: Five friends walk into a bar. Each is a fundamentalist pro-Life Trump-supporting Republican who’s never disagreed with the other four about anything. But one is white, another black, one brown, one yellow, and one red. Scene Two: Five … Read More ›

• Guest Post. About EDI.

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 12, 2023 • ( 5 )

  I’m Pam, Viminitz’ research assistant. In light of the upcoming free online conference on EDI and Academic Freedom, I thought it might be beneficial to offer those interested but not conversant a lay-of-the-EDI landscape. Please note that neither Viminitz nor… Read More ›

• NEVER RETRACT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 11, 2023 • ( 1 )

  The cost of saying something false or stupid is usually minor. But the cost of retraction can be bankrupting. We’ve already seen this with Dean Letts’ and Jagmeet Singh’s going off half-cocked over the Kamloops ‘revelations’. But the Linda Beardy… Read More ›