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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.

• FROM THE MINDLESS MANTRA FILES: DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Diversity is our strength. Well yeah, if we’re talking about an evolutionary strategy for the perdurance of a species. And yeah, to some extent if we’re talking about the perdurance of a polity. We need some people who are good… Read More ›

• WHITE SUPREMACY REINTERPRETED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Hate speech and hate crime have nothing to do with hate. So since words no longer have to mean what they intuitively do, let’s take a look at white supremacy. Does a white supremacist have to believe that whites are… Read More ›

• PLUS C’EST LA MEME CHOSE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  First came the bomb. Then came the power plant. So if ever there was a case of beating swords into plowshares … But usually it’s the other way around. Is that what the Chicken Little-ers are worried about? That AI… Read More ›

• REPLY TO BOGHOSSIAN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  See, Why I’m a Progressive, Peter Boghossian, Substack, Sep 17, 2026. Millions of people in Africa and South Asia want a better life – in some cases even just a slightly safer one – and so they do what they… Read More ›

• WHAT IF GOD WERE ONE OF US?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2026 • ( 0 )

  A being that doesn’t want for anything doesn’t want anything. And if there’s nothing it wants, it won’t do anything. It won’t do anything not because it wants to conserve its energy. If there’s nothing it could want, what would… Read More ›

• ON THE UBIQUITY OF FAITH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2026 • ( 0 )

  If it’s true but I don’t believe it, I don’t know it. If it’s true, I believe it, but I’m not justified in believing it, I don’t know it. If I believe it, I’m justified in believing it, but as… Read More ›

• OF MIGRANTS AND CELL PHONES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2026 • ( 0 )

  In the so-called First World we went from letter writing to land lines and thence to cell phones. In the so-called Third World they skipped the land lines. So on the news we see desperate young men from North Africa… Read More ›

• TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 10, 2026 • ( 0 )

  If it were true that “There are only two kinds of people in the world,” then everyone of the one kind would be qualitatively identical to everyone else of the same kind. Well, apart from identical newborn twins and everyone… Read More ›

• THE MIGRANT CRISIS – PART TWO

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 7, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Humour is about exaggeration. But it’s not exaggeration unless there’s at least a modicum of truth. So yeah, I’m trying to be funny. But take me at least a little bit seriously. Actions have consequences. So does abstinence. It’s not… Read More ›

• THE MIGRANT CRISIS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 7, 2026 • ( 0 )

  Walls are things. Borders are ideas. Hadrian’s Wall used to be both. Now it’s neither. Some borders have walls. Most don’t. They don’t because they don’t need to. They don’t need to because most people think borders are things. More… Read More ›