Preface ( Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Daniel Z. Korman ). Part I: Ontology. 1. "On What There Is" ( W. V. Quine ). 2.
"Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" ( Rudolf Carnap ). 3. "Holes" ( David and Stephanie Lewis ). 4. "Beyond Being and Nonbeing" ( Roderick M. Chisholm ). 5. "Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?" ( Stephen Yablo ).
6. "Fictional Objects" ( Amie L. Thomasson ). 7. "On What Grounds What" ( Jonathan Schaffer ). Part II: Identity. 8. "The Identity of Indiscernibles" ( Max Black ).
9. "Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity" ( Robert M. Adams ). 10. "Identity and Necessity" ( Saul Kripke ). 11. "Contingent Identity" ( Allan Gibbard ). 12.
"Can There Be Vague Objects?" ( Gareth Evans ). 13. "Vague Identity" ( Robert C. Stalnaker ). Part III: Modality. 14. "Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions" ( Alvin Plantinga ). 15.
"Actualism and Thisness" ( Robert M. Adams ). 16. "A Philosopher's Paradise: The Plurality of Worlds" ( David Lewis ). 17. "Possible Worlds" ( Robert C. Stalnaker ). 18.
"Modal Fictionalism" ( Gideon Rosen ). 19. "Essence and Modality" ( Kit Fine ). Part IV: Properties. 20. "Natural Kinds" ( W. V. Quine ).
21. "Causality and Properties" ( Sydney Shoemaker ). 22. "The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars" ( Keith Campbell ). 23. "New Work for a Theory of Universals" ( David Lewis ). 24. "Universals as Attributes" ( D.
M. Armstrong ). Part V: Causation. 25. "On the Notion of Cause" ( Bertrand Russell ). 26. "Causes and Conditions" ( J.L.
Mackie ). 27. "Causal Relations" ( Donald Davidson ). 28. "Causality and Determination" ( G.E.M. Anscombe ).
29. "Causation" ( David Lewis ). 30. "Causal Connections" ( Wesley C. Salmon ). 31. "Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism" ( Michael Tooley ). 32.
"Two Concepts of Causation" ( Ned Hall ). Part VI: Persistence. 33. "Identity Through Time" ( Roderick M. Chisholm ). 34. "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis" ( W. V.
Quine ). 35. "Parthood and Identity Across Time" ( Judith Jarvis Thomson ). 36. "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" ( Mark Heller ). 37. "The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics" ( David Lewis ). 38.
"Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics" ( Sally Haslanger ). 39. "All the World's a Stage" ( Theodore Sider ). Part VII: Persons. 40. "Persons and Their Pasts" ( Sydney Shoemaker ). 41. "The Self and the Future" ( Bernard Williams ).
42. "Personal Identity" ( Derek Parfit ). 43. "Survival and Identity" ( David Lewis ). 44. "Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism" ( Jaegwon Kim ). 45. "The Ontological Status of Persons" ( Lynne Rudder Baker ).
46. "An Argument for Animalism" ( Eric T. Olson ). Part VIII: Objects. 47. "When are Objects Parts?" ( Peter van Inwagen ). 48. "Many But Almost One" ( David Lewis ).
49. "Existential Relativity" ( Ernest Sosa ). 50. "The Argument from Vagueness" ( Theodore Sider ). 51. "Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism" ( Trenton Merricks ). 52. "Against Revisionary Ontology" ( Eli Hirsch ).
53. "Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness" ( Daniel Z. Korman ).