Author: Jerry Gill

  • JESSE OWENS, MY HERO

    Back in 1936 when I was 3 years old Jesse owns was the star of the Berlin Olympics. He won the 100, the 200, the long jump, and anchored the winning relay. 15 years later when I was just beginning my track and field efforts, at our first high school meet I won the long…

  • Michael Polanyi’s Idea of “Tacit Knowing”

    Both my former student friend Lou Tassinary and my long-time friend and colleague Ray Boisvert responded to my post about Kant’s answer to Hume by suggesting that Kant may be the highwater mark of modern thought but he has been surpassed by more contemporary thinkers who have sought to incorporate the role of bodily and…