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• STUPIDITY DEFINED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 28, 2022 • ( 4 )

  Philosophers are in the business of either drawing distinctions or collapsing them. A case of the latter is David Hume’s observation that, all this palaver to the contrary notwithstanding, causation just is correlation. A case of the former is the… Read More ›

• THE WORLD SINCE 1363

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 26, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Whenever you’re in the moment – as distinct from what? outside of it? – it’s often difficult – no, make that impossible – to see it for what, if anything, it really means. But a  moment takes its meaning from… Read More ›

• IS SELF-IDENTIFICATION CRITERIAL OR MERELY EVIDENTIAL?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 9, 2022 • ( 4 )

  Here’s what I trust will be an instructive analogy. There are very few knock-down arguments in philosophy, but Plato’s Euthyphro is one of them. Does God make something good by approving of it, asks Socrates, or does He approve of… Read More ›

• BAFFLEGAB

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 18, 2022 • ( 2 )

  It’s been around since before we emerged from the cave. Or maybe even before we came down from the trees. So the only thing new about it is how it’s beginning to irritate the fuck out of me. It began… Read More ›

• DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE 101

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Here are some of the enabling axioms we’re going to need, both a) to define distributive justice, and then b) to settle on what a just distribution might look like. Let the x axis be one’s share of the cooperative… Read More ›

• INDUCTION AND STEREOTYPES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  And while we’re at it, let’s settle once and for all all this blather about stereotyping. A stereotype is just a run-of-the-mill induction, usually performed on a person rather than a more general causal relation. The sun has risen in… Read More ›

• BETWEEN AND AGAINST

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Okay, let’s get this settled, once and for all. To discriminate is to ascertain the difference between two things and behave accordingly. So, for example, I have a discriminating taste for both wines and curries. I’m also able to –… Read More ›

• MAR-A-LAGO, DOBBS, AND THE UNFORESEEABLE BUT SURE-TO-BE-COMEDIC FUTURE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The raid on Mar-a-Lago has done little to dampen the conviction that there’s a deep-state conspiracy against the Donald, and one designed to ensure that the Democrats remain in power. And the Dobbs decision has motivated many women to try… Read More ›

• THE ROAD TO PERDITION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The road to perdition is almost always paved with the very best of intentions. For example, in 2000 the Government of Canada instituted and funded a highly ambitious Canadian Research Chair program. Tier Two rewards were designed to encourage scholars… Read More ›

• MAGA (MAKING THE ACADEMY GREAT AGAIN)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Today I heard an account I’d never heard before. White males are losing interest in a university education because the oil patch is paying too much. So to survive universities have to attract non-whites, and to do that it has… Read More ›

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