Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction -- 1 God -- Introduction -- The Ontological Argument -- The Cosmological Argument -- The Teleological Argument -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 2 What are we? -- Introduction -- What are We? -- Adjudicating the Rival Views -- The Case of Fission -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 3 Existence -- Introduction -- What is Existence? -- Non-Existent Objects -- Adjudicating between the Property and Quantifier Views -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 4 Modality -- Introduction -- Essentialism -- Varieties of Essentialism -- Necessary Truth -- Possible Worlds -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 5 Objects and properties -- Introduction -- Universals -- Russell's Bundle Theory -- Varieties of Nominalism -- Tropes -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 6 Causation -- Introduction -- The Regularity Theory -- The Counterfactual Theory -- Non-Reductionism? -- Backwards Causation -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 7 Time: the fundamental issue -- Introduction -- A-theory vs. B-theory -- McTaggart's Arguments -- Five Objections to the A-theory -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 8 Time: four puzzles -- Introduction -- Temporally Biased Attitudes -- Time without Change -- Time Travel -- Bringing about the Past - A Puzzle -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 9 Fatalism -- Introduction -- Fatalism: Five Varieties -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 10 Free will and determinism -- Introduction -- Is the Notion of Free will Incoherent? -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions -- 11 Puzzles of material constitution and identity -- Introduction -- Three Puzzles -- Do Ordinary Objects Endure or Perdure? -- The Three Puzzles Examined -- Concluding Remarks -- Study Questions