Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nominalism / Zoltán Gendler Szabó -- Platonistic theories of universals / Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz -- Individuation / E.J. Lowe -- Identity / John Hawthorne -- Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities / Peter van Inwagen -- The problem of possibilia / Kit Fine -- Reductive theories of modality / Theodore Sider -- Presentism / Thomas M. Crisp -- Four-dimensionalism / Michael C. Rea -- Space-time substantivalism / Graham Nerlich -- Persistence through time / Sally Haslanger -- Events / Peter Simons -- Causation and supervenience / Michael Tooley -- Causation in a physical world / Hartry Field -- Distilling metaphysics from quantum physics / Tim Maudlin -- Material people / Dean W. Zimmerman -- The ontology of the mental / Howard Robinson -- Supervenience, emergence, realization, reduction / Jaegwon Kim -- Libertarianism / Carl Ginet -- Compatibilism and incompatibilism : some arguments / Ted Warfield -- Realism and anti-realism : Dummett's challenge / Michael J. Loux -- Ontological and conceptual relativity and the self / Ernest Sosa -- Vagueness in reality / Timothy Williamson.