Contemporary Readings In The Foundations Of Metaphysics

This volume is a comprehensive survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of issues and provides students with the basic background to current debates in metaphysics.

Stephen Laurence is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, England and is co-editor with Eric Margolis of Concepts: Core Readings (1998).


Cynthia Macdonald is Professor at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand. She is co-author with Graham Macdonald of Philosophy of Psychology (Blackwell Publishers, 1995) and Connectionism (Blackwell Publishers, 1995).

List of Contributors for State of the Art Essays.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Metaphysics and Ontology: Stephen Laurence and Cynthia MacDonald.

Part I: Methodology and Ontological Commitment.

Part II: Possible Worlds and Possibilia.

Part III: Universals and Properties.

Part IV: Substances.

Part V: Events.

Part VI: Tropes.

Part VII: Mathematical Objects.

Index.