Paulosophical Vimplications

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• THE I-BELIEVE-YOU CAMPAIGN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I have a colleague down the hall who believes that “Any criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitism!” This is stupid, but in her case forgivable. She’s the daughter of two Shoah survivors, both of whom had tattoos on… Read More ›

• THE SERENITY PRAYER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Neibuhr, 1892-1971 What it is to know something is the same… Read More ›

• SLAVERY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Because I’m now two-thirds of a century old I’m allowed to be a curmudgeon. I don’t say things like, “Why can’t they mow their lawn?!”, but I do ask, “Why can’t my students write in proper English sentences?!” But what… Read More ›

• UNEMPLOYMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I’m not the first to say what I’m about to say here, but I think it has to be said over and over and over again, to at least attempt to counter the nonsense that’s been spouted over and over… Read More ›

• FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND THE BROMIDE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The recent spat – actually it’s turning into a spate of spats – between Donald Trump and the mainstream media, has resurrected a query I’ve had for decades. What exactly justifies freedom of the press? The standard bromide, recall, is… Read More ›

• HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND ANTI-SEMITISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 26, 2017 • ( 5 )

  Down the hall and around two corners, I have a colleague named Tony Hall. I say ‘colleague’, but only in the sense that we’re both tenured professors at the same university. I teach in the Philosophy Department; he’s a one-man… Read More ›

• The Point Zero Zero One Percent

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 14, 2016 • ( 1 )

  WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 173 – THE POINT ZERO ZERO ONE PERCENT My grandmother was a Bolshevik, and my father a socialist. I came to adulthood during the turbulent Sixties, and for two decades I’ve been surrounded… Read More ›

• First to the Tribe

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 14, 2016 • ( 1 )

  WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 172 – FIRST TO THE TRIBE  By a belief being true I mean its corresponding to some actual state of affairs. (What it is for a network of synapses in the brain,… Read More ›

• Texting and Driving

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 7, 2016 • ( 0 )

  TEXTING AND DRIVING Most accidents are caused by carelessness, most car accidents by careless driving. Careless driving can be caused by any number of things, including impairment but also a desire to impress one’s buddies. Or, less plausibly, one’s date…. Read More ›

• Trigger Warnings

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 7, 2016 • ( 0 )

  TRIGGER WARNINGS I take it that no one thinks we have a categorical obligation not to upset each other. But many of us think, myself included, that we have the right to try to protect ourselves from being upset. And… Read More ›

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