Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings

Praise for the First Edition: 'This anthology is clearly exceptionally good." -Quentin Smith, Western Michigan University "This anthology has many excellent features: the choice of readings is very good, mixing in an interesting way established and much-anthologised classics with new material.' - Tim Crane, University College London

Michael J. Loux is the George N. Schuster Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, Indiana. He is the author of Substance and Attribute (1978) and Primary Ousia (1991), as well Metaphysics: a Contemporary Introduction, the third edition of which is also published by Routledge.

Introduction Universals Bertrand Russell, "the World of Universals" H.H. Price, "Universals and Resemblances" W.V. Quine "On What There Is" D.C. Williams "The Elements of Being" David Armstrong "Universals as Attributes" Particulars Max Black "The Identity of Indiscernibles" Edwin B. Allaire "Bare Particulars" James Van Cleve "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory" Albert Casullo, "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory" Modality and Possible Worlds David Lewis "Possible Worlds" Alvin Plantinga "Actualism and Possible Worlds" David Lewis "Counterparts or Double Lives?" Saul Kripke "Identity and Necessity" Causation David Hume, "Treatise or Inquiry on Causation" A.C.Ewing, "Fundamental Questions of Philosophy: Causation" Elizabeth Anscombe, "Causation and Determination" J.L.Mackie "Causes and Conditions" David Lewis, "Causation" Time J.M.E McTaggart, "Time C.D Broad, "Ostensible Temporality" Richard Taylor, "Time and Eternity" A.N. Prior, "The Notion of the Present" J.J.C. Smart, "The Space-Time World" D.H. Mellor, "The Need for Tense" Persistence Mark Heller, "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" Trenton Merricks, "Endurance and Indiscernibility" Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity" David Lewis, "Survival and Identity" Richard Swinburne, "Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory" Realism and Anti-Realism Michael Dummett, "Realism" W.V. Quine, "Ontological Relativity" Hilary Putnam, "A Problem About Reference" Peter Van Inwagen, "Objectivity"