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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.

• THE CATHEDRAL AND THE CAPITOL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 18, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Said the king to his henchmen, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?!” So they did.  To which he whinged afterwards, “But I didn’t mean they should do that!” I think the moral of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in… Read More ›

• WHEN AN AD BACULUM ISN’T A FALLACY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 16, 2021 • ( 2 )

  There’s an important distinction – one too many critical thinking instructors fail to make – between, on the one hand, what’s likely to be true, and, on the other, what one’d be well advised to believe.  For example, that Jesus… Read More ›

• THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 15, 2021 • ( 6 )

  There’s no official membership list, but there’s a fairly clear description of who’d be on it. In the light of that description, I’ve just found out, much to my delight, that I am myself a member of the Intellectual Dark… Read More ›

• IN THE WAKE OF THE ‘INCURSION’

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Since the – let’s just call it an ‘incursion’ – into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, CNN and MSNBC have been awfulising it as “the end of the American experiment in democracy”, while Fox has been downplaying it as… Read More ›

• INTERSECTIONALITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 11, 2021 • ( 3 )

  SJWs have just discovered something no one knew before, namely that sexual discrimination affects a black woman differently than it does a white woman, and racial discrimination affects a black man differently than it does a black woman. Now whodathunkit?… Read More ›

• THE MEANING OF 6MWE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 10, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Until last Wednesday I was under the happy delusion that I was the most politically incorrect asshole on the planet. I now have to accept that I’ve been bested. For there, in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, and… Read More ›

• A HOUSE DIVIDED, AND KEEPING IT THAT WAY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 10, 2021 • ( 5 )

  In one my first entries in this blog, “First to the Tribe”, posted on September 14, 2016, I noted – not as a criticism but as a simple observation – that none of us can afford to do all of… Read More ›

• AWFULISERS AND TRIVIALISERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 7, 2021 • ( 2 )

  In the wake of the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol building yesterday, things could have gone one of two ways. The Awfulisers worried that Trump would ‘double down’, perhaps even invoking martial law. So, they added, if… Read More ›

• THE CALL CENTRE CONUNDRUM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 7, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Is it still English if the accent is on the wrong syllable? I want to argue that it’s not. Rebel is a noun. To rebel is a verb. “The rebels opted to rebel.” is English. “The rebels opted to rebel.”… Read More ›

• SENSITIVITY READERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Heaven forfend that books should offend. So I knew that publishers have taken to hiring sensitivity readers. What I didn’t know, but should have guessed, is just how sensitive these sensitivity readers take readers to be. I could regale you… Read More ›