2006-11-27 A great place to start philosophy

This is an excellent book. It takes a structured learning approach that gets you "doing philosophy" right from the start. Writen as part of the External Diploma coarse of the University of London the book uses a variety of philosophical texts and guides the student through them with questions and points of reflection at approriate places in the arguments. I used this book myself and have moved on to the degree coarse. The topics covered are varied and if you find one a little dry there will be others that catch your interest.