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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| List of Sources | |
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| Introduction: What is Metaphysics? | |
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| What are the Most General Features of the World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Existence? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Holes | |
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| On What There Is | |
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| Beyond Being and Nonbeing | |
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| What is the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universals: an Excerpt from The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell | |
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| Universals as Attributes: an Excerpt from Universals: an Opinionated Introduction | |
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| Universals and Resemblances: Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience | |
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| The Elements of Being | |
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| The Identity of Indiscernibles | |
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| Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory | |
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| What is Time? What is Space? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence | |
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| McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: an Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy | |
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| The Notion of the Present | |
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| Changes in Events and Changes in Things | |
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| The General Problem of Time and Change: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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| The Myth of Passage | |
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| Some Free Thinking about Time | |
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| The Fourth Dimension: an Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe | |
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| Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions | |
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| The Traditional Conception of Space, and the Principle of Extensive Abstraction: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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| Achilles and the Tortoise | |
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| A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: an Excerpt from Space, Time, and Motion | |
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| Grasping the Infinite | |
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| The Paradoxes of Time Travel | |
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| How do Things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Of Confused Subjects Which Are Equivalent to Two Subjects: an Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic | |
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| The Paradox of Increase | |
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| Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis | |
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| In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to "Survival and Identity" | |
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| The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds | |
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| Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism | |
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| How do Causes Bring about their Effects? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Constant Conjunction: an Excerpt from A Treatise of | |
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| Efficient Cause and Active Power: an Excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind | |
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| Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: an Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind | |
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| Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic | |
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| Causality and Determination | |
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| What is Our Place in the World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Are Mind and Body Related? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Which Physical Thing Am I?: an Excerpt from "Is There a Mind-Body Problem?" | |
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| Personal Identity: a Materialist Account | |
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| An Argument for Animalism | |
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| Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
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| Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory | |
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| The Causal Theory of the Mind | |
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| The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | |
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| Neutral Monism: an Excerpt from Philosophy | |
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| Is it Possible for Us to Act Freely? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| We Are Never Free: an Excerpt from The System of Nature Paul-Henri Dietrich, Baron d'Holbach | |
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| Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable without It | |
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| Freedom, Causation, and Preexistence: an Excerpt from Problems of Mind and Matter | |
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| Human Freedom and the Self | |
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| The Consequence Argument | |
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| The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom | |
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| The Agent as Cause | |
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| Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
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| Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person | |
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| Are There Many Worlds? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Are There Worlds Other than the Actual World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Modal Realism at Work: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds | |
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| Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies | |
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| Identity and Necessity | |
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| Is There More than One Actual World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| After Metaphysics, What? | |
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| Truth and Convention | |
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| Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity: an Excerpt from "Putnam's Pragmatic Relism" | |
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| Addendum to "Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity": Objections and Replies | |
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| Why is There a World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Problem of Being: Chapter 3 of Some Problems of Philosophy | |
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| Why Anything? Why This? | |
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| Response to Derek Parfit | |
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| The Cosmological Argument: an Excerpt from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | |
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| The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason | |
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| The Ontological Argument: Chapters II-IV of the Proslogion | |
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| Anselm's Ontological Arguments | |
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| Index | |