commitment, and fictional entities /

Peter van Inwagen --

The problem of possibilia /

Kit Fine --

Reductive theories of modality /

Theodore Sider --

Presentism /

Thomas M. Crisp --

Four-dimensionalism /

Michael C. Rea --

Space-time substantivalism /

Graham Nerlich --

Persistence through time /

Sally Haslanger --

Events /

Peter Simons --

Causation and supervenience /

Michael Tooley --

Causation in a physical world /

Hartry Field --

Distilling metaphysics from quantum physics /

Tim Maudlin --

Material people /

Dean W. Zimmerman --

The ontology of the mental /

Howard Robinson --

Supervenience, emergence, realization, reduction /

Jaegwon Kim --

Libertarianism /

Carl Ginet --

Compatibilism and incompatibilism : some arguments /

Ted Warfield --

Realism and anti-realism : Dummett's challenge /

Michael J. Loux --

Ontological and conceptual relativity and the self /

Ernest Sosa --

Vagueness in reality /

Timothy Williamson.

Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.

"The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the world's most distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about "what there is": what kinds of things there are, and what relations hold among entities falling under various categories. They give the latest word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. The Handbook's unrivaled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum."--The publisher's website.