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| Preface | |
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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 the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics? | |
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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 Principle of Individuation: An Excerpt from Human Knowledge, its Scope and Limits | |
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| Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory | |
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| What is Time? What is Space? | |
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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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| The General Problem of Time and Change: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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| The Space-Time World: An Excerpt from Philosophy and Scientific Realism | |
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| Topis, Soris, Noris: An Excerpt from The Existence of Space and Time | |
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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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| 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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| Of Confused Subjects which are Equivalent to Two Subjects: An Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic | |
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| Identity Through Time | |
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| Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis | |
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| Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities | |
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| In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to 'Survival and identity' | |
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| Some Problems About Time | |
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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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| Constant Conjunction: an excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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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 is the Appearance of a Thing Related to the Thing that Appears? | |
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| The Theory of Sensa: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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| Qualities: An Excerpt from Consciousness and Causality | |
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| The Status of Appearances: An Excerpt from Theory of Knowledge, 1st edition | |
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| What is the Relation Between Mind and Body? | |
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| Which Physical Thing am I? An Excerpt From 'Is There a Mind Body Problem?' (Roderick M. Chisholm | |
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| Personal Identity: a Materialist Account | |
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| Dividend Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
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| Body and Soul: An Excerpt from The Evolution of the Soul | |
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| The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | |
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| Is it Possible for us to Act Freely? | |
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| Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without it | |
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| Human Freedom and the Self | |
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| The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom | |
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| The Agent as Cause | |
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| Is There Just One World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Speaking of Objects | |
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| After Metaphysics | |