Paulosophical Vimplications

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• THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In the course of his travels, Gulliver came upon an island very much like our own. Not unlike how it was for us, the complementarity of their genitalia was for most of their history the sine qua non of reproduction,… Read More ›

• THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTHERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Hans Kuhn observed that a scientific hypothesis survives, and rightly so, until a better one comes along. But surely there are some hypotheses which, notwithstanding we don’t yet have – perhaps we’ll never have – an alternative to replace it,… Read More ›

• THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 10, 2017 • ( 2 )

  In the same way that my first year students have a penchant for starting their papers with “For thousands of years philosophers have wondered …”, I like to start mine with “Of the things I care least about, in a… Read More ›

• MATTERING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I trust it will be granted that there are things that matter to no one, that there’s nothing that matters to everyone, and that there are things that matter to some people but not to others. What may not be… Read More ›

• IN MY UNQUALIFIED OPINION …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  If I asked your opinion of the various candidates in the upcoming municipal elections in Otterpiddle, Ontario, I’m guessing you’re going to say you don’t have one. In fact I’d be pretty gobsmacked if you did. But if I asked… Read More ›

• CHALLENGE versus RIDICULE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Much as I’d sometimes like to be, I’m not a knee-jerk civil libertarian. I understand that the maintenance – and before that the promotion – of a civil society sometimes requires limits to freedom of movement, of association, of expression,… Read More ›

• THE TONY HALL CASE REVISITED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on May 9, 2017 • ( 1 )

  I made a stab at this in my blog in an earlier post entitled “Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism”. Since that post, an internal investigation of an internal complaint against Tony Hall has exonerated him, and the Administration’s complaint against him… Read More ›

• TWO LECTURES YOU WON’T GET AT LAW SCHOOL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

     LESSON 1: NATURAL LAW AND POSITIVE LAW There are, among the Great Unwashed – that’s everybody except me, by the way – some pretty serious misconceptions about law. Some people, including some philosophers, think there’s something called natural law, by… Read More ›

• THE TRUTH-ABOUT-SNEEZING MOVEMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on April 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Consider the following two claims: 1) Sneezing could provoke an attack from Mars. 2) Anthropogenic climate change may have contributed to the civil war in Syria. Both of these statements are undoubtedly true, since all they mean is 1) There’s… Read More ›

• PERSONALIZED PRONOUNS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I’m old enough to remember when ‘Ms’ was introduced so that women didn’t have to gratuitously announce their marital status to all and sundry. So I have no objection to our language being altered to serve a laudable political objective…. Read More ›

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