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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.

• THE PERILS OF PATTER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 1 )

  Given the number of times a politician’s heart goes out to the families of this tragedy or of that, one wonders whether it ever stays home. This kind of patter isn’t as innocent as it might appear. It’s not that… Read More ›

• IT WAS ALL FAKE!

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  I knew it was bound to happen, but I was floored by the speed with which it did. Even before the last of the boys and their coach emerged safely from the cave – indeed even before the rescue operation… Read More ›

• RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT PAASD

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  There’s yet to be a scientific consensus on the frequency of alien abduction. But there’s already data indicating that the frequency of reports of alien abduction – as evidenced by the number of confirmed cases of Post-Alien Abduction Stress Disorder… Read More ›

• DESIDERATA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  What Donald Trump has done, both during the campaign and in the year and a half since, is tapped into the backlash against both political correctness and what’s correct politically. The backlash against political correctness was long overdue. In saying… Read More ›

• CURMUDGEONISM # 643 – ON THE HIJACKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Am I answerable for what was said in Curmudgeonism # 618 (below) when it’s entirely possible I didn’t write it? The technology is now such that anyone with a little savvy can hijack your blog or social media account and… Read More ›

• CURMUDGEONISM # 618 – OF YO, YA, AND TARDS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  It’s a little known fact – probably because it isn’t one – that as well as its gendered third person pronouns – he and his, she and hers – for a long time English had gendered second person pronouns. If… Read More ›

• MONIKA’S MOM AND PIUS XII

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Monika Schaefer, a Jasper, Alberta woman, and daughter of post-war German immigrants, is currently in a German prison awaiting trial for Holocaust denial, a criminal offense in that and several other European countries, though not in Canada. The charge was… Read More ›

• NOTES FROM THE JUNGLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Whenever I give a talk, one of my favorite opening schticks is, “Of the things I care least about, the historicity of the Empty Tomb and global warming are pretty much in a dead heat. What I do care about,… Read More ›

• THE CRITICAL THINKING PROFESSOR’S DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

    S asserts that not-p. S is paid. Therefore S is paid to assert that not-p. The likelihood of the truth of not-p varies inversely with what one is paid to assert it. If one’s been exposed to the evidence… Read More ›

• THE MIGRANT DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  By a human right, as distinct from a civil right, is meant, presumably, one one has independently of the polity to which she happens to belong. But a human right does not extend between sovereign jurisdictions. By this I mean… Read More ›