Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Review from previous edition This is an elegantly written and enormously stimulating book. It is full of original, provocative, philosophical argumentation. Maudlin shows by example what it is to do the best kind of naturalized metaphysics: one based on thorough acquaintance with real science, but unwilling to accept a superficial analysis of how it bears on deep philosophical problems. Every metaphysician should read it and emulate Maudlin's method, even when disagreeing with his conclusions.

• Introduction ; 1. A Modest Proposal Concerning Laws, Counterfacutals, and Explanations ; 2. Why Be Humean ; 3. Suggestions Form Physics For Deep Metaphysics ; 4. On the Passing of Time ; 5. Causation, Counterfactuals, and the Third Factor ; 6. The Whole Ball of Wax ; Epilogue: A Remark on the Method of Metaphysics

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Review from previous edition This is an elegantly written and enormously stimulating book. It is full of original, provocative, philosophical argumentation. Maudlin shows by example what it is to do the best kind of naturalized metaphysics: one based on thorough acquaintance with real science, but unwilling to accept a superficial analysis of how it bears on deep philosophical problems. Every metaphysician should read it and emulate Maudlin's method, even when disagreeing with his conclusions.

• Introduction ; 1. A Modest Proposal Concerning Laws, Counterfacutals, and Explanations ; 2. Why Be Humean ; 3. Suggestions Form Physics For Deep Metaphysics ; 4. On the Passing of Time ; 5. Causation, Counterfactuals, and the Third Factor ; 6. The Whole Ball of Wax ; Epilogue: A Remark on the Method of Metaphysics