Gordon Brittan is Regents Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and former Executive Director of the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy at Montana State University. He is an author or editor of several books and over sixty papers, the majority of them on the history and philosophy of physics and mathematics. In recent years he has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cinnabar Foundation and Chief Permitting Officer of the Cat Creek Renewable Energy and Water Storage Project in Idaho.