Written specifically with beginning undergraduates with little or no previous knowledge of the subject in mind, this is a distinctive and thoughtful introduction to the main problems of philosophy structured around a philosophical argument which is clearly and carefully developed throughout the book.

D Z Phillips is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Danworth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate School, California. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion and ethics with some of his more recent books including From Fantasy to Faith (1991), Interventions in Ethics (1992), and Wittgenstein and Religion (1993). He is also editor of the Blackwell journal Philosophical Investigatins.