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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.

• BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE SJW’S DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Here’s something I do know. As with everywhere else on the planet, there was tribal warfare in Africa long before European colonialism. What I don’t know – but I stand to be instructed – is whether that colonialism mitigated that… Read More ›

• OF DESPAIR

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I can imagine there are moments – I suspect we’ve all had them – when life is such that one’s grown weary of it. If she’s lucky, which thankfully most of us are, that weariness passes, either because, thank God,… Read More ›

• THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Nobody likes to be surveilled, but I don’t think Derek Chauvin thought he was doing anything wrong. Nobody likes to be told he’s doing something wrong. When challenged we all have a knee-jerk tendency to double down. So being told… Read More ›

• A DECLARATION OF WAR

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 18, 2021 • ( 21 )

  The meaning of a word or phrase is how it’s used, and its use changes with the alacrity of the weather. Kleenex used to be a brand name, now it’s synonymous with facial tissue. Likewise to vacuum became to hoover…. Read More ›

• DIVERSE DOES NOT MEAN UNORTHODOX

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 18, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Here’s a little known fact about human beings. They compete for resources, certainly, but also for higher positions in the social pecking order. That is, I could have made more money in the private sector – still could, in fact… Read More ›

• THE OUTCOMES FALLACY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 16, 2021 • ( 5 )

  The way to test your argument for validity is what we might call the that’s-like-saying test. You give me your argument, I provide an analogous argument – analogous in the sense of sharing what we call your argument’s argument form… Read More ›

• THE FORGOTTEN MERITS OF TRIAL BY ORDEAL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 5, 2021 • ( 2 )

  I think we might have been too quick getting rid of some features of medieval jurisprudence. How so? Well, Derek Chauvin’s defence is claiming it wasn’t Chauvin’s knee on his neck that killed George Floyd, it was the drugs in his… Read More ›

• My new profile picture.

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  See, Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So…what did you do?

• HOW TO MAKE WHITE LIVES MATTER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Now that Asian Lives Matter has eclipsed the Black Lives Matter movement, if only for a week or two, I wonder what it’ll take to get a White Lives Matter movement off the ground. Probably some black man walking into… Read More ›

• THE UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 20, 2021 • ( 3 )

  It’s good that I’ve recused myself from all hiring committees here at the University of Lethbridge, because if I hadn’t I’d worry I might succumb to overkill and vote against any candidate who wasn’t able-bodied, heterosexual, white, and male. “Huh?!”… Read More ›