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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.
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ONTOLOGY – SEVENTH INSTALMENT
VII. FINITISM – PART TWO The issue here is Zeno’s Paradox and how to resolve it. To get from here to there I first have to cover half the distance, then half the remaining distance, then half the distance still… Read More ›
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ONTOLOGY – SIXTH INSTALMENT
VI. FINITISM – PART ONE In his Third Meditation, Rene Descartes offered a unique version of Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. It goes like this. Everything we experience we experience as not going on forever. Even if… Read More ›
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Guest Post. And now for something completely different …
Complementing an academic’s freedom to dissent is the maximal removal of impediments to her pursuit of hypotheses and matters of fact about the stuff that furnishes the universe and of the universe itself. This stuff undergirds the core investigations of… Read More ›
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ONTOLOGY – FIFTH INSTALMENT
V. OCCAM’S RAZOR AND ATOMISM The core axiom driving any cognitive system is to treat like alike. So naturally, whenever there’s such an option, the mind would prefer to think that things are, at some fundamental level, alike, so they… Read More ›
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ONTOLOGY – FOURTH INSTALMENT
IV. IN PRINCIPLE VERSUS EPISTEMIC So we’ve decided that ‘being’ is itself an unanalysable primitive, but an enabler concept nonetheless. And we’ve decided that by kind of being we mean a closed set of causal relations. So there can really… Read More ›
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THE DEPTH OF MY SHALLOWNESS
Let’s face it. Canadian politics are excruciatingly boring. No Canadian party is going to eliminate medicare or criminalise abortion. And really, what else matters? So it’s no surprise that what counts as civil discourse on the other side of the… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 