I&rsquo\;m editing an open textbook for Introduction to Philosophy courses. An open textbook is like a regular textbook only it&rsquo\;s: (a) free of cost\, and (b) licensed to allow others to reuse\, revise\, redistribute it. Usually open textbooks are online and can be downloaded in multiple formats. \; You can see more information about this project in a blog post I wrote about it: \;http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2017/04/15/open-textbook-for-intro-to-philosophy/ \; You can also see more documents about the project at the top of this discussion thread: http://forum.rebus.community/topic/56/project-summary-general-discussion-introduction-to-philosophy
We are currently looking for people who would be willing to write a chapter for two Parts of the textbook: Ethics and Aesthetics (those are the two we have Part Editors for so far). Writing a chapter means about \;2000-3000 \;words\, and each chapter will be part of the larger &ldquo\;Parts&rdquo\; of either Ethics or Aesthetics\, in the longer Intro to Philosophy textbook. Please see here for more information on what being a chapter author entails: \;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TlCo5mAoqkDGQEEPcaRX29pW2S-Z5okhi934_Iv3_qs/pub \;
\nPlease note that this is volunteer work! The book will be free and no one is getting paid for doing this work. \; \; But we are working with a foundation called Rebus who is publishing the book\, and thus is will be an official open textbook rather than something that is just published out of my hard drive! \;The Rebus Community is a non-profit organization developing a new\, collaborative process for publishing open textbooks. Rebus is building tools and resources to support open textbook publishing\, and to bring together a community of faculty\, librarians\, students and others working with open textbooks around the world. You can see more about Rebus here: \;https://rebus.foundation/ If you want more information about Rebus\, you can contact Zoe Wake Hyde at \;zoe@rebus.community \;
\nIf you think you might be interested\, please reply to me off list: \;christina.hendricks@ubc.ca \; And please forward this message to anyone in Philosophy you think might be interested! We are ideally looking for people with a PhD and teaching experience in philosophy\, but could also have PhD students if they really want to author a chapter. \;
\nThanks for considering! \;
\nChristina Hendricks
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Christina Hendricks
Professor of Teaching
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia-Vancouver
christina.hendricks@ubc.ca
Website: \;http://chendricks.org
Blog: \;http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks