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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.

• WHY JAGMEET SINGH WILL NEVER BE PRIME MINISTER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 5, 2021 • ( 17 )

  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 ›

• HELP!

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 4, 2021 • ( 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 ›

• THE DEAN’S LETTER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 4, 2021 • ( 10 )

  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 ›

• OF DISCOMFORT AND VULNERABILITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 27, 2021 • ( 3 )

  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 ›

• RETALIATORY DEPLATFORMING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 26, 2021 • ( 2 )

  So here’s what I’m proposing. We create a data base of anyone who’s participated in a deplatforming. Anyone who’s signed a deplatforming petition. Anyone who’s publicly lobbied for such a deplatforming. Any administrator who’s caved to any such deplatforming campaign. … Read More ›

• CHOICE FOR WOMEN, BUT NONE TO BE ONE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  What we might call the weak pro-Lifer believes that 1) the foetus is a person, 2) it’s wrong to kill persons, and so 3) it’s wrong to have an abortion. Is this incompatible with the pro-Choice position? Not at all…. Read More ›

• MYANMAR, BELARUS, XINJIANG, AND ALABAMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 25, 2021 • ( 1 )

  I can’t help wondering what Americans would do if Alabama decided to reinstate black slavery. People who are about to do something the international community is bound to regard as beyond the rights of sovereignty – the military coup in… Read More ›

• TAKING NAMES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 24, 2021 • ( 4 )

  There’s been a great deal of palaver of late – palaver in which I’m now ashamed to have participated – about the cancel culture that’s now doing a number on the academy. I’m ashamed not because I shouldn’t play my… Read More ›

• HAVING A JORDAN PETERSON MOMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 23, 2021 • ( 2 )

  If I’m talking to you, your pronoun is you. If I’m talking about you but out of earshot of you, then you can’t complain about having been misgendered because you won’t know you were. So it’s only if I’m talking… Read More ›

• ELEVEN DAYS IN MAY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  More people died on American highways the week before 9/11 than in those two towers.  But how much has been spent on guardrails compared to so-called homeland security?  Does this show that Americans care less about their loved ones being… Read More ›