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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’RE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 19, 2020 • ( 4 )

  Wherever you look, there are signs reminding us that “We’re all in this together!” If this is some kind of social cue I’m not picking up on, it’s probably because I don’t know what the ‘this’ refers to. For example,… Read More ›

• A DEFENCE OF BIGOTRY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 13, 2020 • ( 1 )

  If I were born blind, I’d have no idea what colour I am. Or even that people come in different colours. I’d only know about it if someone told me about it. As it happens I wasn’t born blind. But even then… Read More ›

• THE PIVOT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  A servant serves a master. A public servant serves the public. Dr. Deborah Birx was quintessentially that. Note the ‘was’, because yesterday, May 7, she pivoted. You can tell she pivoted from public servant to servant of Donald Trump when,… Read More ›

• STACEY ABRAMS AND THE I-BELIEVE-YOU CAMPAIGN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  It would be oxymoronic of me to complain about something having gone unreported, since if it went unreported I wouldn’t know it. The same applies to something that is reported but is then ignored, since if I’m complaining about it being… Read More ›

• COVID 19 AND PRIVILEGE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  On the assumption things don’t get so bad that we descend into anarchy, those of us with protected incomes have a much better chance than those who don’t of coming out of this thing financially intact, but also physically intact…. Read More ›

• 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 ›