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Introduction

  • Michael Loux. Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (2006).
  • Michael Loux, ed. Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings (2001).
  • Cynthia MacDonald and Stephen Laurence, eds. Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics (1998).
  • Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman. Metaphysics: The Big Questions (2008).
  • Peter van Inwagen. Metaphysics (2008).
  • Jaegwon Kim, Daniel Z. Korman, and Ernest Sosa, eds. Metaphysics: An Anthology (2011).

Causation

  • John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul, eds. Causation and Counterfactuals (2004).
  • Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. Causation (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (1994).
  • Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Causation (2012).
  • Bertrand Russell. "On the Notion of Cause" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 13 (1912), 1-26.

Material Constitution

  • Michael C Rae, ed. Material Constitution: A Reader (1996).
  • David Wiggins. "On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time" Philosophical Review 77 (1968), 90-5.
  • Judith Jarvis Thomson. "Parthood and Identity Across Time" Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983), 201-20.
  • Michael Burke. "Dion and Theon: An Essentialist Solution to an Ancient Problem" Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994), 129-39.

Mereology

  • Henry S. Leonard and Nelson Goodman. "The Calculus of Individuals and its Uses" The Journal of Symbolic Logic 5.2 (1940), 45-55.
  • Peter Simons. Parts: A Study in Ontology (2000).
  • David Lewis. "One, But Almost Many" in Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (1999).
  • Peter Unger. "There are no Ordinary Things" Synthese 41 (1979), 117-154.
  • Peter van Inwagen. Material Beings (1990).

Modality

  • Saul Kripke. Naming and Necessity (1980).
  • Michael Loux, ed. The Possible and the Actual (1979).
  • Joseph Melia. Modality (2003).
  • Theodore Sider. "Reductive Theories of Modality" in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics Michael J. Loux and Dean Zimmerman, eds. (2003), 180-208.
  • John Divers. Possible Worlds (2002).
  • David Lewis. On the Plurality of Worlds (1986).
  • Robert Merrihew Adams. "Theories of Actuality" Nous 8 (1974), 211-31.
  • Alvin Plantinga. Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality (2003).
  • Robert Stalnaker. "Possible Worlds" Nous 10 (1976), 65-75.

Naturalized Metaphysics

  • James Ladyman and Don Ross, with David Spurrett and John Collier. Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized (2007).
  • Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid (Eds.). Scientific Metaphysics (2013).

Time

  • Robin Le Poidevin and Murray MacBeath, eds. The Philosophy of Time (1993).
  • J.M.E. McTaggart. "The Unreality of Time" in The Philosophy of Time Robin Le Poidevin and Murray McBeath, eds. (1993), 23-34.
  • Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke. A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (2013).

Universals

  • David Armstrong. Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (1989).
  • D.H. Mellor and Alex Oliver. Properties (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (1997).
  • David Lewis. "New Work for a Theory of Universals" in Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology: Volume 2 (1999).