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| Table of Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Existence | |
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| "On What There Is" | |
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| "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" | |
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| "Existence and Descriptions" | |
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| "Referring to Nonexistent Objects" | |
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| "Ontological Relativity" | |
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| Identity | |
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| "The Identity of Indiscernibles" | |
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| "Identity and Necessity" | |
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| "The Same F" | |
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| "Contingent Identity" | |
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| "Identity, Essense, and Indiscernibility" | |
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| Modalities and Possible Worlds | |
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| "Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions" | |
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| "Identity Through Possible Worlds" | |
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| "Counterparts or Double Lives?" | |
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| "Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity" | |
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| "The Nature of Possibility" | |
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| Universals, Properties, Kinds | |
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| "Universals as Attributes" | |
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| "New Work for a Theory of Universals" | |
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| "Natural Kinds" | |
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| "On Properties" | |
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| "Causality and Properties" | |
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| Things and Their Persistence | |
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| "Identity Through Time" | |
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| "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis" | |
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| "Scattered Objects" | |
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| "Parthood and Identity Across Time" | |
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| "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" | |
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| The Persistence of the Self | |
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| "The Persistence of Persons" | |
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| "Persons and Their Pasts" | |
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| "The Self and the Future" | |
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| "Personal Identity" | |
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| "Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory" | |
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| "Human Beings" | |
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| Causation | |
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| "Causes and Conditions" | |
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| "Causal Relations" | |
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| "Causation" | |
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| "Causal Connections" | |
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| "The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account" | |
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| Emergence, Reduction, Supervenience | |
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| "Mechanism and Emergentism" | |
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| "Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers" | |
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| "Special Sciences" | |
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| "Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction" | |
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| "Physicalism: Ontology, Reduction, and Determinism" | |
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| "Supervenience as a Philosophical Concept" | |
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| Determinism, Fatalism, Agency | |
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| "Defining Determinism" | |
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| "Fatalism" | |
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| "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" | |
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| "Can the Will be Caused?" | |
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| "Choice and Indeterminism" | |
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| Realism Antirealism | |
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| "Realism" | |
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| "Pragmatic Realism" | |
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| "Putnam's Pragmatic Realism" | |
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| "Yes, Virginia, There is a Real World" | |
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| "Morals and Modals" | |
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| "Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism" | |
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| Index | |