The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

• The definitive reference work for all scholars and students
• Completely new contributions from a dream team of philosophers
• Comprehensive survey of all major branches of the discipline
• Essays are lively, critical, and important contributions

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy

Edited by Michael J. Loux, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and Dean W. Zimmerman, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Introduction
1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Nominalism
2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of Universals
3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation
4: John Hawthorne: Identity
5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities
6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of Possiblia
7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality
8: Thomas M. Crisp: Presentism
9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism
10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism
11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time
12: Peter Simons: Events
13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience
14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World
15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics
16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material People
17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental
18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction
19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism
20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism
21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism
22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self
23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality