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This book aims to be a comprehensive and challenging introduction to philosophy for the student who is more comfortable with secondary than with primary sources. Although philosophers do speak in their own words in this text when appropriate, this book consists primarily of summary, explication, and discussion of the major arguments on the issues involved. The writing style is relatively informal. The text is organized in a conventional and straightforward way. It begins with an overview of philosophy (Chapter 1) and an introduction to logical thinking (Chapter 2). It then explores a series of basic issues related to human action and our dealings with each other: determinism and freedom (Chapters 3 and 4), ethics, and its ultimate justification (Chapters 5 and 6). Next, it proceeds to more theoretical issues: the nature of reality and knowledge (Chapters 7 and 8) and the existence of God (Chapter 9). The book concludes with three chapters that examine nontraditional questions or perspectives: whether a dolphin is a “person” (Chapter 10), the different claims by Karl Marx and Albert Einstein that things aren’t the way they appear to be (Chapter 11), and the way that Buddhism and Native American thought see the world very differently from a traditional Western perspective.