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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.

• HOMEWARD BOUND

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 14, 2021 • ( 1 )

  If someone had told us we were crossing from one continent to another, we wouldn’t have known what he was talking about. We were just following the Antlers, as we’d done for as long as I or anyone else could… Read More ›

• A DEFENCE OF RAPE AND SLAVERY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 14, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Each of us has two parents. Each of them has two. So we have four grandparents, eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents, and so on. So we’d only have to go back ten generations to meet our thousand ancestors… Read More ›

• MOVING THE NEGATION SIGN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  It’s one of the oldest tricks in the books, and university administrators have learned to play it with panache.  Professor X says or writes something politically incorrect. The media asks for comment, and the dean or president answers, quite correctly,… Read More ›

• WATCH YOUR METAPHORS!

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 1, 2021 • ( 1 )

  People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. So policy statements targeting the unwoke for their micro-aggressions should be especially careful about their own metaphors. Hereafter there shall be no wilful ‘blindness’. No longer should we ‘stand up’ for… Read More ›

• HOW TO TEST YOURSELF FOR AUTISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  It would be so much easier, for all concerned, if we didn’t have to draw a distinction between sexual violence and just garden variety violence. But alas we have to. We have to because a judge would be hard pressed… Read More ›

• Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 31, 2021 • ( 2 )

  What fascinates me about Speakeasies was the mingling between and relative equality of rich, poor, women, men, black and white. These illicit clubs helped with the momentum and success of civil rights movements. The current Prohibition with its categories of prohibited… Read More ›

• WHY THE FULL ENGLISH IS SO WIDELY SAVOURED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I’ve already commented in this blog that behind my wife’s blonde exterior there be dragons. Not in the sense that she’s any more dangerous than the Lilith of the Apocrypha. Rather it’s the quirky things that attract her considerable research… Read More ›

• MY BELOVED MARJORIE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  For those of you who’ve been following this blog long enough to have detected a gradual drift from my erstwhile Marxist roots towards the Alt-Right, be advised that I’ve just taken leave of both my wife and my senses and… Read More ›

• IN MEMORIUM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Today, January 27, marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. There weren’t a whole lot of people left there to be liberated. And of those who were there aren’t a whole lot still alive… Read More ›

• WHO GETS A DEPARTMENT OF THEIR OWN?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 27, 2021 • ( 2 )

  I know there are people because I’ve met some. But I’m not sure I’ve ever met a people. A people, I’m told, is a collection of people, but not just any collection of people. It has to be of people… Read More ›