1: Introduction: The nature of metaphysics
Part I Identity and Change
2: Identity over time and change of composition
3: Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts
4: Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence
Part II Necessity, Essence, and Possible Worlds
5: Necessity and identity
6: Essentialism
7: Possible worlds
Part III Causation and Conditionals
8: Conterfactual conditionals
9: Causes and conditions
10: Conterfactuals and event causation
Part IV Actions and Events
11: Event causation and agent causation
12: Actions and Events
13: Events, things, and space-time
Part V Space and Time
14: Absolutism versus relationalism
15: Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space
16: The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change
17: Tense and the reality of time
18: Causation and the direction of time
Part VI Universals and Particulars
19: Realism versus nominalism
20: The abstract and the concrete
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