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xi acknowledgments This text belongs to many extraordinary students who, with laughter and tears, coura geously agonized their way through a journey toward their own freedom that was set out for them in many preliminary drafts. It was a privilege and an honor to learn with them. I am also grateful to my professorial, administrative, and staff colleagues at Capilano University—a gem of an educational institution in North Vancouver, Canada, where excellence in teaching is par for the course and where every effort is made to make all things possible (in this case, my paid educational leave to attend to the finetuning and publishing of this text). In particular, I would like to thank Sally Spires and Barb Smith, who patiently and enthusiastically oversaw various drafts and who sent them every which where as necessary, and Carol Hamshaw, for helping me work with a graphics computer program that was unfamiliar to me. And with respect to the graphics, I owe a great deal to Dirk van Stralen, who labored so patiently to capture the essence of my two pups, Diva and Bennie. I would also like to thank Mick Gusinde-Duffy, acquisitions editor at Temple University Press, who recognized the value and the risk inherent in this new method of critical thinking and who went beyond the call of duty to shepherd this work through to publication. My gratitude also goes to Joan Polsky Vidal, production editor at P. M. Gordon Associates, who worked tirelessly in editing multiple drafts of this text. I am also grateful to Katie Himsworth, who assisted in proofreading the companion Instructor’s Manual, and Clive Himsworth, who assisted in proofreading the final version of the text. I continue to be indebted to Alan Montefiore, my tutor and friend during my years at Oxford University, who was responsible not only for initiating my lifelong love affair with Immanuel Kant but also for encouraging me to play with obtuse ideas. Such Kantian play is evident in the pages that follow. Ultimately, however, virtually all of what I have come to understand about thinking one’s way to freedom is grounded in the interactive journey I have undertaken with my daughter, Chelsea, since the day she was born. Now twenty-five years old and a doctor of veterinary medicine, she continues to be my confidante and my inspiration. I dedicate this book to her. Thinking Your Way to Freedom ...