Persistence through time is like extension through space. A road has spatial parts in the
subregions of the region of space it occupies; likewise, an object that exists in time has …

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the
limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of …

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or
places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it …

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had
acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like …

On the now dominant Quinean view, metaphysics is about what there is. Metaphysics so
conceived is concerned with such questions as whether properties exist, whether meanings …

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and
how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that …

Do numbers, sets, and so forth, exist? What do mathematical statements mean? Are they
literally true or false, or do they lack truth values altogether? Addressing questions that have …

Which is prior, the whole or its parts? The monist holds that the whole is prior to its parts, and
thus views the cosmos as fundamental, with metaphysical explanation dangling downward …

The title misleads, for the greater part of this book is a systematic exposition of the ontology
that Lowe has developed in recent years. It is principally an exercise in metaphysics, a …

Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the
carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what …