Gary C. Gibson - Essays

The problem of improvised explosive devices might be addressed with drones able to convey a lightweight ground probe unit quickly to discov...

People had fear of the unknown-and rightly so in most cases. Explanations were made to account for things (ref Big Bang theory). Liege lord...

'Thus Spake Zarathustra' is Nietzsche's world view as the philosopher of the eternal recurrence. His philosopher named Zarathus...

  Physicalism is itself a philosophical point of view about the mass and energy in which humans exist and of which the Universe is made. It...

I think it might be easier to understand in a primitive situation. For example if a family of humans with small children were walking on th...

When Jesus said judge not lest ye be judged I had a sense that he was referring to the judiciary or something like it. That is one could ma...

Treacherous policy changes done with no public debate and carried out like a burglary make one wonder if the President is having his string...

Turkey had no combat troops in the Second World War. Because they were on the German side in the First World War and lost much of their emp...

Sartre's major works haven't communism in them. It is a fact that he wrote part of The Critique of Dialectical Reason in the Soviet...

I read a couple of Marx's books a long time ago; Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. The material was also covered briefly in a So...

Shouldn't some auto insurance be pay-per-mile or for when the vehicle is used rather than monthly? If there are people that would buy a...

Analytic truths are self-consistent without reliance on something besides the internal logic for truth. Synthetic propositions involve some...

 Matthew 27:22-25 seems like an assumption (a claim) of legal and moral responsibility for the execution of Jesus. Though they were a neces...

Reading western philosophy is a life-long project (that one can complete generally by about age 40 with a lot of reading. Start with Plato...

President Trump's Kurd policy regarding Turky reminds one of major General Rosecrans misunderestimating the situation of the line at th...

President Trump should have created a Kurdish state in part of Northern Syria to settle Kurdish allies with security. While the President ...

China may be better off without the N.B.A. or Hong Kong. The N.B.A. promotes a lot of goons to multi-millionaire status instead of sci...

Pope Francis has opened up a dialogue for ending the celibate priesthood, that is, priests in that denomination would be allowed to marry...

Giving the green light for a Turkish invasion of Syria endangers U.S. Kurdish allies. The Kurds are one of the few reliable long-term partn...

Senator Mitt Romney occasionally throws dirt on President Trump. President Trump replies; it’s not unusual or difficult to understand. Wha...