February 1, 2002
Finding the Philosophers' Stone in Las Vegas
When I began to teach philosophy at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 1999, I wondered whether such an environment might pose special challenges for teaching critical thinking. In the land of make-believe, few persons think it is important to see beyond the flashy lights and neon signs. One of my new colleagues remarked that "thinking actually works against you in Las Vegas," implying that my hopes that thinking should make a difference were a kind of empty idealism, fated to vanish
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