EDITOR'S PREFACE FOR STUDENTS

I. EXISTENCE

Burke, Michael. Introduction to Existence. commissioned article for this volume.

Rescher, Nicholas. On Explaining Existence.

Parfit, Derek. Why is Reality as It Is?

Nozick, Robert. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Bibliography of further readings

II. REALISM/ ANTI-REALISM

Blackburn, Simon. Introduction to the Realism Debates. commissioned article for this volume.

Dummett, Michael. Realism and Anti-Realism.

Putnam, Hilary. Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World.

Sosa, Ernest. Putnam's Pragmatic Realism.

Devitt, Michael. A Naturalistic Defense of Realism. commissioned article for this volume.

Devitt, Michael. Postscript to "A Naturalistic Defense of Realism". commissioned article for this volume.

Bibliography of further readings

III. TRUTH

Schmitt, Frederick. Introduction to Truth. commissioned article for this volume.

Tarski, Alfred. The Semantic Conception of Truth.

Haack, Susan. The Pragmatist Theory of Truth.

Rescher, Nicholas. Truth as Ideal Coherence.

Horwich, Paul. The Disquotational Conception of Truth.

David, Marian. Truth as Correspondence.

Bibliography of further readings

IV. ABSTRACTA: PROPERTIES, NUMBERS, PROPOSITIONS

Hale, Bob. Introduction to Abstracta. commissioned article for this volume.

Quine, W.V. On What There Is.

Carnap, Rudolf. Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology.

Church, Alonzo. On Carnap's Analysis of Statements of Assertion and Belief.

Quine, W.V. Meaning and Truth.

Benacerraf, Paul. What Numbers Could Not Be.

Armstrong, David M. Universals as Attributes.

Bibliography of further readings

V. SECONDARY QUALITIES

Averill, Edward. Introduction to Secondary Qualities. commissioned article for this volume.

Armstrong, David M. The Secondary Qualities.

Boghossian, Paul A., and J. David Velleman. Colour as a Secondary Quality.

Hardin, C.L. Color and Illusion.

Bibliography of further readings

VI. CONCRETA: EVENTS

Bennett, Jonathan. Introduction to Events. commissioned article for this volume.

Davidson, Donald. The Individuation of Events.

Kim, Jaegwon. Events as Property Exemplifications.

Lombard, Lawrence B. Events.

Bibliography of further readings

VII. CONCRETA: SUBSTANCE

Lowe, E.J. Introduction to Substance. commissioned article for this volume.

Van Cleve, James. Three Versions of the Bundle Theory.

Rosenkrantz, Gary, and Joshua Hoffman. The Independence Criterion of Substance.

Simons, Peter. Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance.

Bibliography of further readings

VIII. DEPENDENT PARTICULARS: HOLES, BOUNDARIES, AND SURFACES

Hestevold, H. Scott. Introduction to Dependent Particulars. commissioned article for this volume.

Lewis, David, and Stephanie Lewis. Holes.

Casati, Roberto, and Achille C. Varzi. Immaterial Bodies.

Chisholm, Roderick M. Boundaries as Dependent Particulars.

Stroll, Avrum. Two Conceptions of Surfaces.

Bibliography of further readings

IX. MEREOLOGY

Simons, Peter. Introduction to Mereology. commissioned article for this volume.

Quine, W. V. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis.

Heller, Mark. Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects.

Van Inwagen, Peter. Four-Dimensional Objects.

Van Cleve, James. Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time.

Bibliography of further readings