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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.

• BREAKING NEWS IN CANADA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Some species eat their own young. So do some political parties. The Republicans in the U.S., and the Greens in Canada, are both currently engaged in devouring themselves. It’s too early to predict what will be left of the former…. Read More ›

• OF DECOLONISATION AND MARRANOS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Here’s are three quick lessons, in political philosophy, in the philosophy of mind, and in the philosophy of language respectively. 1) Political behaviour is behaviour. 2) He who controls thought controls behaviour. And 3) he who controls language controls thought. … Read More ›

• FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS (2017/03/17)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) spoke these words in 1946. In an interview many years later he confessed with regret that he hadn’t thought to write it down. So it’s not surprising that versions of it have since proliferated. Nevertheless, as good… Read More ›

• BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  There’s probably nothing more indicative of the war between the Woke and the Pushbackers than the battle over trans athletes being allowed to compete in women’s sports. I’ve taken the side of the Pushbackers, but suppose it turns out we’re… Read More ›

• THE POLITICS OF RACE AND AGE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I’m told there are several species of mice. I probably could learn the difference between them, but I won’t. I won’t because the only thing about mice that I care about – and this applies to all mice regardless of… Read More ›

• CHARLES MURRAY’S “FACING REALITY”

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 4, 2021 • ( 3 )

  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 ›

• DONALD RUMSFELD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 2, 2021 • ( 3 )

  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 ›

• DO NOT PRESS … OOPS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 20, 2021 • ( 1 )

  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 ›

• THE MOUNT ROYAL LEAD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  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 ›

• STUPID IDEA # 416

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  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 ›