Author: Jerry Gill

  • International Women’s Day

    I must confess that I missed the date this year. Given our history as human beings we must all learn to pay special attention to this date. Women have been second-class citizens since the beginning. It is past time to set this right!! We are making slow progress but women are still “also rans” in…

  • Who Was Wittgenstein?

    Simple answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who studied with Bertrand Russell at Cambridge University during the 1930s, producing his first major work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He was followed by other thinkers such as A.J. Ayer in England and Rudolph Carnap in Austria, who focused on the “verificationist” theory of meaning. After World War Two…