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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.

• WHAT TO DO WHEN A COLLEAGUE GOES AWOL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  What things need to be licensed, what can but needn’t be, and what shouldn’t be? Doctors, engineers, pilots, certainly. But some people have argued, though mostly tongue-in-cheek, that if anyone needs to be pre-qualified it’s parents. Requiring a license to… Read More ›

• AN ANALYSIS BOTH COMICAL AND SERIOUS OF THE CHILD SEX DOLL DEBATE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  It had to happen. It was just a matter of time. In fact it’s been happening incrementally, probably since before we came down from the trees. When there was nothing around we just shut our eyes and masturbated to what… Read More ›

• UNSOLICITED WORDS OF ADVICE INSTALLMENT #18

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Those who claim that the end is nigh – today it’s anthropogenic global warming that’s most widely thought is going to do us in – are aware, are they not, that the world is going to come to an end… Read More ›

• WHY BLACK LIVES MIGHT MATTER AFTER ALL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  You and I allow each other to freely be in each other’s presence on condition that we won’t misbehave. Were this not so we’d all still be cowering in our caves, “and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,… Read More ›

• WHAT DO REVENGE FANTASIES TELL US ABOUT ETHICS?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I am not going to claim that all of us play host to revenge fantasies, because then I couldn’t deny – which I categorically do – that I certainly do. So everything I say here is prefixed by an I-hear-tell,… Read More ›

• UNDERSTANDING SERIAL KILLERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  It never ceases to amaze me that whatever it is, it’s almost invariably a thing. Who knew, for example, that if you google “diary” and “Holocaust”, there are tomes upon tomes of articles on whether the Anne Frank diary was… Read More ›

• REGARDING HEROISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Each of us has heroes. And in that, the having is enough. Which is just to say my hero needn’t be someone I aspire to be. I don’t aspire to be Frederick Douglass or Rosa Parks or Malcolm X or… Read More ›

• THE NON-IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” “Mais non, monsieur, zis eez our fly zupe, zee specialite de la maison.” How do we resolve this issue? By deferring to the intentions of the chef? But he might dissimulate, to save… Read More ›

• NECESSITATED HYPOCRISY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 21, 2017 • ( 1 )

  There are a few things that I get that other people don’t. If this weren’t so I wouldn’t be of much use to them, now would I? So no, since it’s not hubris, no apology warranted, so none forthcoming. And… Read More ›

• A COMPLETE COURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY SHOULDN’T TAKE MORE THAN TWENTY-THREE MINUTES. TIME ME.

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  LESSON #1: DEFINING ONE’S TERMS Environmental Philosophy (henceforth EP) is that series of phonemes and/or chicken scratches that sustains itself by assiduously refusing to define any of the dozen or so terms which can then be randomized to form sentences… Read More ›