About This Book
Gurinder Purewal
This open educational resource book, Great Thinkers, was developed in collaboration with faculty, student members, and TRU Open Press team at Thompson Rivers University (TRU). It is designed for students and instructors in the Faculty of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, History, Politics at TRU located in Kamloops, BC.
The developers of this book are committed to addressing student inequities in educational opportunities and outcomes and view open resources as an pedagogical tool to make high education available for students everywhere. As such, the purpose of this book is to serve as a primary resource for students of TRU enrolled in PHIL 1010 “Introduction to Philosophy: Great Thinkers — Ancient to Enlightenment” and PHIL 1020 “Introduction Philosophy: Great Thinkers: Ancient to Enlightenment,” and as an available free resource for those who desire to use it.
