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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.

• WE HUMANS ARE ODD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 7, 2020 • ( 1 )

  They asked me to stay home for a couple of weeks, and I did what they asked. Then they asked me to stay home for another two weeks, and after that another, and then another, and now yet another. The… Read More ›

• HEY, I’M JUST SPECULATIN’

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  People complain about the cold. So what does God do? He warms it up a little. And then they get hysterical about global warming. Can you blame Him for getting a bit miffed? “Here, let me give you something to… Read More ›

• THE PREVIOUS INVESTMENT TRAP

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 5, 2020 • ( 2 )

  My wife isn’t just a pretty face. Behind it she’s got a sit-up-and-take-notice brain, i.e. one not to be trifled with. So in response to my query at the end of my last post, she’s offered the following answer. Not… Read More ›

• THE NO-END-IN-SIGHT CLAUSE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 5, 2020 • ( 1 )

  All the epidemiologists and politicians are talking about flattening the curve, by which they don’t mean– at least not necessarily – reducing the total area under the curve, i.e. reducing the number of people who’ll eventually contract Covid 19. Even… Read More ›

• THE REAL COST OF COVID 19

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 4, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Here’s a well-known fact, or at least it would be well-known if it were given a moment’s thought. Most of the people who work for a living, at least in the so-called developed world, don’t actually produce anything. They don’t… Read More ›

• A WALK IN THE SUN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 30, 2020 • ( 3 )

  There’s a remote possibility that … Hang on. To assert that something is highly unlikely – for example that civilization as we know it will come to an end as a result of this Covid 19 pandemic – presupposes a… Read More ›

• ONLY BAD PEOPLE ASK BAD QUESTIONS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 27, 2020 • ( 1 )

  I guess this is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound. How so? Because once one’s asked – as I have in an earlier post – how many lives have actually been saved once we include… Read More ›

• SOME UNSOLICITED THEOLOGY FROM A SELF-CONFESSED ATHEIST

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 25, 2020 • ( 5 )

  A being that wants for nothing wants nothing. That’s why it makes no sense to talk about the self-sufficiency of God. If there was nothing He felt was wanting He wouldn’t have bothered creating anything. But apparently He did. In… Read More ›

• EYAM AND THE BLACK DEATH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  One of the tropes going around is that the Covid 19 virus doesn’t care whether you’re Democrat or Republican, Christian or atheist, pro-Life or agin’ it, or whatever. But that’s not true. If you mock the draconian efforts being deployed… Read More ›

• CHARLES DARWIN AND DAVID LEWIS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 24, 2020 • ( 1 )

  I’m not sure we needed Charles Darwin to alert us to this tautology: Things that persist over time do and things that don’t don’t. I’m not sure this explains anything, but yes, a Monarch butterfly keeps its markings over the… Read More ›