This volume provides a vital student resource: a collection of the essential classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics.
Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1995),
Metaphysics (1993),
Material Beings (1990), and
An Essay on Free Will (1983).
Dean Zimmerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published articles on metaphysics in The American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Mind, The Monist, Nous, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and other journals and collections.