Introduction
Welcome to our interactive online textbook How to Think Critically. We hope you will find it both useful and enjoyable to work through! In this section, we introduce ourselves and the book, and give you a chance to see how the “interactive” element of the textbook works.
Justine Kingsbury teaches critical thinking, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and aesthetics at the University of Waikato. She is from Raglan but now lives in Onewhero, amidst three cats, one dog, two kunekune pigs, nine sheep and some chooks (and one husband).
Stephanie Gibbons teaches critical thinking and logic at the University of Waikato. She has an interest in Ancient Philosophy, particularly metaphysics. She lives in Hamilton and has a smaller collection of animals – just two chickens.
To contact the authors
Stephanie Gibbons
stephanie.gibbons@waikato.ac.nz
Senior Tutor, Philosophy Programme
Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato – The University of Waikato
Justine Kingsbury
Justine.kingsbury@waikato.ac.nz
Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Programme
Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato – The University of Waikato
The textbook has six chapters, each of them accompanied by questions that allow you to test your understanding of key concepts and to practice skills learnt in the chapter.
Table of Contents
Interactive features
This textbook contains interactive features: the text is interspersed with questions designed to test your understanding, and allowing you to practice skills. To make the best use of the textbook, do the questions as you go. Many questions also contain helpful feedback to tell you what you may have missed.
You can try out the interactive feature below, so that you can see how a textbook using this format works.
The most common sort of question is a multiple choice question like this.
A variation on the multiple choice question occurs where there are several correct answers, and you must select all that apply.
