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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.

• FROM THE YES-BUT-DON’T-SAY-IT FILE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 5, 2024 • ( 2 )

  The core axiom driving any cognising organism is to treat like cases alike. And this, of course, requires that it distinguish between this collection of things and that collection of things. These distinctions are not always easy. Are we in… Read More ›

• Guest Post. And now for something completely different …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Complementing an academic’s freedom to dissent is the maximal removal of impediments to her pursuit of hypotheses and matters of fact about the stuff that furnishes the universe and of the universe itself. This stuff undergirds the core investigations of… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – FIFTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  V. OCCAM’S RAZOR AND ATOMISM The core axiom driving any cognitive system is to treat like alike. So naturally, whenever there’s such an option, the mind would prefer to think that things are, at some fundamental level, alike, so they… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – FOURTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  IV. IN PRINCIPLE VERSUS EPISTEMIC So we’ve decided that ‘being’ is itself an unanalysable primitive, but an enabler concept nonetheless. And we’ve decided that by kind of being we mean a closed set of causal relations. So there can really… Read More ›

• THE STATE OF THE RACE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  According to MSNBC, if Trump wins America will be a fascist dictatorship. According to Fox, if Harris wins it’ll be a communist dystopia. I suppose that without this hyperbolic awfulising American politics would be about as boring as, well, Canadian… Read More ›

• RAPE AND INCEST

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Don’t get me wrong – which of course you will – but I am not a pro-Lifer. But if I were a pro-Lifer – which, remember, I’m not – I’d think I’d still be a stickler for logical consistency. So… Read More ›

• THE DEPTH OF MY SHALLOWNESS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 29, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Let’s face it. Canadian politics are excruciatingly boring. No Canadian party is going to eliminate medicare or criminalise abortion. And really, what else matters? So it’s no surprise that what counts as civil discourse on the other side of the… Read More ›

• BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  It’s a little known fact that others of our species are not very tasty, at least not to us. I say it’s a little known fact, though I grant that it’s widely believed. This is because the only people who… Read More ›

• THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  The Principle of Double Effect (PDE) exculpates you for the albeit anticipated consequences of your actions – the so-called collateral damage – provided 1) they were not the intention of your action, 2) they were not the means by which… Read More ›

• KIMBERLY CHEATLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 27, 2024 • ( 1 )

  So apparently this is how it works: 1) At a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, the United States Secret Service failed to protect presidential candidate Donald Trump. 2) More could have been done towards avoiding this failure…. Read More ›