-- The Ontology of Metaphysical Realism -- Realism and Predication -- Realism and Abstract Reference -- Restrictions on Realism---Exemplification -- Further Restrictions---Defined and Undefined Predicates -- Are There Any Unexemplified Attributes? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 2.The Problem of Universals II: Nominalism -- Overview -- The Motivation for Nominalism -- Austere Nominalism -- Metalinguistic Nominalism -- Trope Theory -- Fictionalism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 3.Concrete Particulars I: Substrata, Bundles, and Substances -- Overview -- Substratum and Bundle Theories -- An Objection to the Bundle Theory---Subject-Predicate Discourse -- Another Objection to the Bundle Theory---the Identity of Indiscernibles -- Contents note continued: An Argument for the Substratum Theory -- Problems for the Substratum Theory -- Aristotelian Substances -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 4.Propositions and Their Neighbors -- Overview -- The Traditional Theory of Propositions -- Nominalism about Propositions -- Facts, States of Affairs, and Events -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 5.The Necessary and the Possible -- Overview -- Problems about Modality -- Possible Worlds -- Possible Worlds Nominalism -- The Metaphysics of Possible Worlds Nominalism---David Lewis -- Actualism and Possible Worlds---Alvin Plantinga -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 6.Causation -- Overview -- Hume's Account of Causation -- The Response to Hume -- Neo-Humean Approaches -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 7.The Nature of Time -- Overview -- McTaggart's Argument -- The B-Theory -- The A-Theory -- The New B-Theory -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 8.Concrete Particulars II: Persistence through Time -- Overview -- Contents note continued: Two Theories of Persistence---Endurantism and Perdurantism -- Persistence and the Nature of Time -- The Ontology of Perdurantism -- An Argument for Perdurantism---Change in Properties -- A Second Argument for Perdurantism---Change in Parts -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 9.Concrete Particulars III: Parts and Wholes -- Overview -- The Problem of the Many -- Mereological Nihilism -- Mereological Moderatism -- Mereological Universalism -- Constitution Metaphysics -- Partism -- Relative Identity -- Simple Universalism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 10.Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Overview -- What Is Metaphysical Indeterminacy? -- Epistemic Indeterminacy -- Examples of Metaphysical Indeterminacy? -- Composition and Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Future Contingents and Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Quantum Physics and Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Linguistic and Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Moral Indeterminacy and Metaphysical Indeterminacy -- Contents note continued: Evans's Argument Against Vague Identity -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 11.The Challenge of Anti-Realism -- Overview -- Two Views about the Nature of Reality -- Dummett's Anti-Realist -- The Inscrutability of Reference -- Putnam's Anti-Realism -- Realism or Anti-Realism? -- Notes -- Further Reading.