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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.

• AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING TRANSPHOBIC …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 3, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Apart from the half dozen things I do care about – and for aught I know I’m the only one who does – I pretty much live in my own little world. My wife, by contrast, researches everything. She even… Read More ›

• WHAT IS IT TO TRIVIALIZE?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I killed a wasp the other day. I murdered a wasp the other day. These have two very different meanings. Why? Because killing means killing, whereas murder means wrongful killing, and presumably no one, or almost no one, thinks it’s… Read More ›

• A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO AGW DENIAL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 30, 2019 • ( 2 )

  ABSTRACT: Of the things I care least about, AGW is in a dead heat with what really happened on 9/11. But because, as George W. Bush put it, either you’re with the terrorists or you’re against them, I think I’d rather… Read More ›

• AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING RACIST …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Let’s not quibble about whether they came across the Bering Strait or miraculously burst into being sui generis. Let’s just say that those who descended from those who could be found in the Western Hemisphere prior to 1492 shall be… Read More ›

• SARAH BRAASCH AND THE BURQA BAN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Sarah Braasch, bless her cotton socks, is the self-styled social justice warrior who recently got herself driven out of a doctoral program at Yale by her pitchfork-wielding fellow students, and brutally pummeled in social media, for having called the cops… Read More ›

• THE MONUMENTAL CRISIS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 23, 2018 • ( 1 )

  The recent spate of monument toppling in America – which has just recently made its way up into Canada – has rendered a long-standing question in social and political philosophy just a tad more urgent. What are we to do… Read More ›

• OWN-PETARD-HOISTING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  The #MeToo movement took a serious hit the other day when it was revealed that Asia Argento, one of the accusers of Harvey Weinstein’s ‘rapacious’ behavior, had herself, even more recently, paid $380,000 to silence a then under-age young man… Read More ›

• FATHERS AND SONS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Only those with a long memory will get the reference, but in the same way Haiti’s Baby Doc Duvalier was not his father Papa Doc, neither is Justin Trudeau his father Pierre Elliott. Papa Doc and Baby Doc were both… Read More ›

• SMALL TALK AND LARGE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  They’ve been out on a date, he invites her up for a nightcap, she accedes, he makes a pass, and she cries sexual assault. Wouldn’t it be so much easier for all concerned, for the two of them and for… Read More ›

• OF CRIMES BY ASSOCIATION WITH CRIMES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Definitive of the Millian liberalism to which most of us purport to subscribe is the view that a) all is permitted save what is prohibited, and that b) a necessary, albeit insufficient, condition of some behavior being justifiably prohibited is… Read More ›