Good morning,<\/p>\n
I invite you to join the campaign for “Clear and Present Thinking<\/a>” – it’s a campaign to create a high-quality textbook in philosophy and critical thinking, and make it available to everyone in the world for free.<\/p>\n We’re doing it for two main reasons:<\/p>\n – Textbooks are far too expensive.<\/strong> Frankly, a lot of my students are so cash-strapped they are forced to choose between food and the rent, two of three times a year. This is a project that will reduce the cost of education by about $70 for all my students, and potentially many more.<\/p>\n – Good critical thinking skills matter.<\/strong> We’ve all been frustrated or hurt by people who make foolish decisions, or who hold dogmatic and unexamined beliefs.<\/p>\n And good critical thinking is not just about analyzing concepts. It’s also about questioning everything; standing up to authority; being creative and resourceful; thinking for yourself; and knowing who you are.<\/p>\n Everyone benefits when more people can do those things really well<\/strong>, and I’m writing this book and using it in my classes to help make that happen.<\/p>\n This campaign will help me raise the funds to pay for contributors, designers, artists, and translators, so that we can create a high quality teaching tool for college students, and make it available to the whole world.<\/p>\n But it won’t happen if we don’t reach our funding target of $5,000.<\/strong> And the success of the project depends on how much social media attention it gets.<\/p>\n So please, spread the word! <\/strong> Share it on Facebook, Twitter, G+, your blog, and every social network you use. And please donate to the project! And I thank you for your support.<\/p>\n Click here to find out more, and to contribute!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning, I invite you to join the campaign for “Clear and Present Thinking” – it’s a campaign to create a high-quality textbook in philosophy and critical thinking, and make it available to everyone in the world for free. We’re … Continue reading