Michael Jubien is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Davis. He has published widely in the field of metaphysics, and is the author of Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference (1993).

"The text includes short exercises printed in bold every few pages. These are excellent devices for testing a student's grasp of the material, and for sparking fresh thoughts about it." Chris Daly, Mind

• Preface. 1. Metaphysics.2. Numbers.3. Platonism.4. Identity.5. Is Truth Relative?.6. Colour.7. Modality.8. Things and Their Parts.9. Determinism, Freedom and Fatalism.10. Is There Truth in Fiction?.11. Cosmology.References.Index.