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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.
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CHARLES MURRAY’S “FACING REALITY”
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All other things being equal – which they’re not, but if they were, then – the better-looking people would get their first choice of mates, and they’d probably choose the better-looking ones. By ‘better-looking’ here I mean something we’re told… Read More ›
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DONALD RUMSFELD
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That Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95 was no great tragedy, because he deserved the long life cosmic justice afforded him. Donald Rumsfeld died the other day at the age of 88. That was a tragedy, because he… Read More ›
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DO NOT PRESS … OOPS
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The toppling of statues of persons whose stature has been recently reversed raises the interesting but unpalatable possibility that the same could happen to those we’ve just recently pedestaled. For example, imagine a hundred years from now it’s been decided… Read More ›
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THE MOUNT ROYAL LEAD
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It was bound to happen, and now it has. Right across the country there has long since been, and rightly so, lower admission standards for indigenous students. But Mount Royal University is currently in the process of drawing up a… Read More ›
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STUPID IDEA # 416
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There are some million and a half people in Canada – about 5% of the population – who, in my own lifetime, have been named, renamed, and renamed again, first as Indians, then natives, then First Nations, and now indigenous…. Read More ›
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THE ONTOLOGY OF PEOPLES AND THEIR DECOLONISATION
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Once upon a time there were peoples living in North America who were as different from one another as were the peoples living in Europe from one another at the same time. As in Europe, these peoples spoke different languages,… Read More ›
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WHY JAGMEET SINGH WILL NEVER BE PRIME MINISTER
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Apparently Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, doesn’t know the difference between a mass grave, as in the former Yugoslavia, and a cemetery here in Canada, like the one in Kamloops, B.C. In the former 215 people… Read More ›
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HELP!
By paulosophicalvimplications on • ( 7 )
Could someone please tell me what ‘decolonisation’ means? Anyone? ANYONE? The dictionary tells me it’s the process of withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent. So if I’m being asked to decolonise my classroom, I’m guessing I – or… Read More ›
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THE DEAN’S LETTER
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On Monday, May 31, 2021, Matt Letts, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge, sent the following missive to all members of the Faculty. Statement on Residential School News – *trigger warning* Dear… Read More ›
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OF DISCOMFORT AND VULNERABILITY
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I think if I were Jewish – which, come to think of it, I am – I’d be far more comforted being assured the Holocaust didn’t happen than being constantly reminded that it did. So I’m not sure how so… Read More ›
