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| Editor''s Preface | |
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| Existence | |
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| Introduction to Existence | |
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| On Explaining Existence | |
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| Why is Reality as It Is? Robert Nozick, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Realism/Anti-Realism | |
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| Introduction to the Realism Debates | |
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| Realism and Anti-Realism | |
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| Why There Isn''t a Ready-Made World | |
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| Putnam''s Pragmatic Realism | |
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| A Naturalistic Defense of Realism | |
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| Postscript to A Naturalistic Defense of Realism | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Truth | |
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| Introduction to Truth | |
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| The Semantic Conception of Truth | |
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| The Pragmatist Theory of Truth | |
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| Truth as Ideal Coherence | |
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| The Disquotational Conception of Truth | |
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| Truth as Correspondence | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Abstracta: Properties, Numbers, Propositions | |
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| Introduction to Abstracta | |
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| On What There Is | |
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| Empiricism, Semanitcs, and Ontology | |
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| On Carnap''s Analysis of Statements of Assertion and Belief | |
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| Meaning and Truth | |
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| What Numbers Could Not Be | |
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| Universals as Attributes | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Secondary Qualities | |
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| Introduction to Secondary Qualities | |
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| The Secondary Qualities | |
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| Colour as a Secondary Quality | |
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| Color and Illusion | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Concreta: Events | |
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| Introduction to Events | |
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| The Individuation of Events | |
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| Events as Property Exemplifications | |
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| Events | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Concreta: Substance | |
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| Introduction to Substance | |
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| Three Versions of the Bundle Theory | |
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| The Independence Criterion of Substance | |
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| Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Dependent Particulars: Holes, Boundaries, and Surfaces | |
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| Introduction to Dependent Particulars | |
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| Holes | |
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| Immaterial Bodies | |
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| Boundaries as Dependent Particulars | |
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| Two Conceptions of Surfaces | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |
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| Merology | |
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| Introduction to Mereology | |
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| Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis | |
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| Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensioned Objects | |
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| Four-Dimensional Objects | |
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| Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time | |
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| Bibliography of Further Readings | |