A student-friendly introduction to AS Philosophy, structured around the AQA AS Philosophy specification. From the author team behind the successful Philosophy in Focus series, this book covers 7 popular AS themes in sufficient depth to achieve a top grade. It combines academic rigour with engaging activities. The authors have used their wealth of experience in teaching philosophy to devise a set of helpful features that deepen understanding and exercise the philosophical mind including: - Activities : practical tasks to help users understand the key philosophical ideas - ' Experimenting with ideas' : activities that explore the concepts and helps students identify their own philosophical viewpoints - ' Criticism' : highlights and evaluates some of the weaknesses in the arguments advanced by philosophers - ' More difficult' : guides students carefully through particularly daunting arguments - Quotations are included from the key texts by the key philosophers - ' Key point summaries' : help students to consolidate knowledge Topics covered: 1 Why should I be moral? 2 The idea of God 3 Persons 4 Reason and experience 5 The debate over free will and determinism 6 God and the world 7 Knowledge of the external world.