“A valuable contribution to current metaphysics. The studies of Gracia’s important book Metaphysics and its Task are insightful, and his replies to them are meticulous. One of the many merits of the book is the respect evident throughout for the essential place of Aristotle and Aquinas in serious metaphysical inquiry.” – Panayot Butchvarov

• Foreword by Ralph M. McInernyEditor’s IntroductionAcknowledgmentsOne: Thomas D. SULLIVAN and Russell PANNIER: The Bounds of MetaphysicsTwo: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being, the Transcendentals, the Divine, and Metaphysics: Response to Sullivan and PannierThree: Josef SEIFERT: What is Metaphysics and What are its Tasks?: An Attempt to Answer this Question with Critical Reflections on Gracia’s BookFour: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being and the Tasks of Metaphysics: Response to Seifert Five: Jonathan J. SANFORD: An Aristotelian Critique of Gracia’s MetaphysicsSix: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Metaphysics and Meta-Metaphysics: Response to SanfordSeven: Robert A. DELFINO: Neo-Thomism and Gracia’s MetaphysicsEight: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Thomas, Thomists, and the Nature of Metaphysics: Response to DelfinoNine: Peter A. REDPATH: Gracia and His TaskTen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: The Nature of Philosophy: Response to RedpathEleven: John D. KRONEN: Spirits and “Things”: Ritschl’s Critique of Metaphysics in Light of Gracia’s Definition of MetaphysicsTwelve: Daniel D. NOVOTNY: Is Hume A Metaphysician?: Aristotle vs. Gracia.Thirteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Making Sense of the History of Metaphysics: Response to Kronen and NovotnyFourteen: Russell PANNIER and Thomas D. SULLIVAN: Gracia on the Ontological Status of CategoriesFifteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Categorial Neutralism: Response To Pannier, Sullivan, Seifert, and IngalaAfterword by Jorge J. E. GRACIAAbout the ContributorsIndex