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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.

• A MEDITATION ON COMPLEASANCE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 18, 2020 • ( 1 )

  The majority view is that global warming is real. The minority view is that it’s not. The majority view is that masks save lives. The minority view is that they don’t. Since nothing in my own behaviour hangs on who’s… Read More ›

• EATING BREAKFAST TOGETHER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 16, 2020 • ( 4 )

  A considerable portion of our brains is dedicated to recognising faces at a distance because our most dangerous predators are others of our species. That friend-or-foe protocol atrophies when we become habituated to living in civil society. But put a… Read More ›

• COMPELLED SPEECH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 13, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Cf. the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, the idea driving the current culture wars is that language controls thought, and thought controls behaviour. So he who controls the words we speak controls the world. And, of course, he who controls the world controls… Read More ›

• RACE RELATIONS IN CANADA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 7, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Okay, let’s settle this business once and for all.  When Europeans came to this continent, and as their settlements crept west, they discovered the land was already occupied. Seeing this – and had they been as ‘woke’ as some of… Read More ›

• THE N-WORD AND GENOCIDE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 6, 2020 • ( 6 )

  I’m jealous. I write over 200 blog entries trashing everything from Black Lives Matter to trans-activism to indigenous land claims to Israeli Apartheid to … And what do I get? Nothin’! Frances Widdowson, a tenured professor at Mount Royal University… Read More ›

• GOOD DAYS AND BAD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 4, 2020 • ( 3 )

  Let’s face it. Some days are better than others. Some days are better than most. And then there are those days, with apologies to Anselm, “the better of which cannot be conceived”. One such for me was last Thursday. It… Read More ›

• WHITE FRAGILITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 4, 2020 • ( 6 )

  White Fragility? Read it? Hell, I haven’t even blogged on it yet! Let’s fix that right now. I’m not sure what colour I am. I’m lighter than most brown people, but I’m darker than some blacks. But whatever colour I… Read More ›

• SOME APT COMPARISONS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

  I tell my students that the only rhetorical overkill, no pun intended, worse than likening some perceived injustice to the Holocaust is likening some perceived villain to Adolf Hitler. But I never allow my advice to apply to me. Accordingly… Read More ›

• RE LAST NIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 30, 2020 • ( 3 )

  When people talk over each other, neither can be heard. But the fault that neither side was heard last night lies not with Donald Trump. That was his well-rehearsed strategy. Rather it lies with Chris Wallace. What he should have… Read More ›

• WHY PATRON AND FARBER?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 29, 2020 • ( 9 )

  Of the hundreds of entires I’ve posted since starting this blog, the least interesting, as far as I can see, is the passing banal comment I made on the contretemps between Travis Patron and Bernie Farber. And yet, for some… Read More ›