Table of Contents.
Preface.
Part I: Existence: .
1."On What There Is": W. V. Quine.
2."Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology": Rudolf Carnap.
3."Existence and Descriptions": Bertrand Russell.
4."Referring to Nonexistent Objects": Terence Parsons.
5."Ontological Relativity": W. V. Quine.
Part II: Identity:.
6."The Identity of Indiscernibles": Max Black.
7."Identity and Necessity": Saul Kripke.
8."The Same F": John Perry.
9."Contingent Identity": Allan Gibbard.
10."Identity, Essense, and Indiscernibility": Steohen Yablo.
Part III: Modalities and Possible Worlds:.
11."Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions": Alvin Plantinga.
12."Identity Through Possible Worlds": Roderick M. Chisolm.
13."Counterparts or Double Lives?": David Lewis.
14."Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity": Robert M. Adams.
15."The Nature of Possibility": D. M. Armstrong.
Part IV: Universals, Properties, Kinds:.
16."Universals as Attributes": D. M. Armstrong.
17."New Work for a Theory of Universals": David Lewis.
18."Natural Kinds": W. V. Quine.
19."On Properties": Hilary Putnam.
20."Causality and Properties": Sydney Shoemaker.
Part V: Things and Their Persistence:.
21."Identity Through Time": Roderick M. Chisolm.
22."Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis": W. V. Quine.
23."Scattered Objects": Richard Cartwright.
24."Parthood and Identity Across Time": Judith Jarvis Thomson.
25."Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects": Mark Heller.
Part VI: The Persistence of the Self:.
26."The Persistence of Persons": Roderick M. Chisolm.
27."Persons and Their Pasts": Sydney Shoemaker.
28."The Self and the Future": Bernard Williams.
29."Personal Identity": Derek Parfit.
30."Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory": Richard Swinburne.
31."Human Beings": Mark Johnston.
Part VII: Causation:.
32."Causes and Conditions": J. L. Mackie.
33."Causal Relations": Donald Davidson.
34."Causation": David Lewis.
35."Causal Connections": Wesley C. Salmon.
36."The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account": Michael Tooley.
Part VIII: Emergence, Reduction, Supervenience:.
37."Mechanism and Emergentism": C. D. Broad.
38."Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers": W. V. Quine.
39."Special Sciences": Jerry A. Fodor.
40."Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction": Jaegwon Kim.
41."Physicalism: Ontology, Reduction, and Determinism": Geoffrey Hellman and Frank Thompson.
42."Supervenience as a Philosophical Concept": Jaegwon Kim.
Part IX: Determinism, Fatalism, Agency:.
43."Defining Determinism": John Earman.
44."Fatalism": Richard Taylor.
45."Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person": Harry G. Frankfurt.
46."Can the Will be Caused?": Carl Ginet.
47."Choice and Indeterminism": Robert Nozick.
Part X: Realism / Antirealism: .
48."Realism": Michael Dummett.
49."Pragmatic Realism": Hilary Putnam.
50."Putnam's Pragmatic Realism": Ernest Sosa.
51."Yes, Virginia, There is a Real World": William P. Alston.
52."Morals and Modals": Simon Blackburn.
53."Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism": Crispin Wright.
Index.