Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Universals and Particulars1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Nominalism
2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of Universals
3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation
II. Existence and Identity4: John Hawthorne: Identity
5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities
III. Modality and Possible Worlds6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of Possiblia
7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality
IV. Time, Space-Time, and Persistence8: Thomas M. Crisp: Presentism
9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism
10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism
11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time
V. Events, Causation, and Physics12: Peter Simons: Events
13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience
14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World
15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics
VI. Persons and the Nature of Mind16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material People
17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental
18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction
VII. Freedom of the Will19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism
20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism
VIII. Anti-Realism and Vagueness21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism
22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self
23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality