Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics, connecting the abstract nature of metaphysics with the real world. Topics covered include:

basic logic for metaphysics
an introduction to ontology
abstract objects
material objects
critiques of metaphysics
natural and social kinds
the metaphysics of race and gender
grounding and fundamentality
free will
time
modality
persistence
causation.

This outstanding book not only equips the reader with a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of metaphysics, but provides a valuable guide to contemporary metaphysics and metaphysicians.

New for this second edition are updated sections on metaphysical indeterminacy; new sections on manipulation arguments and free will and neuroscience; and new chapters on the important topics of social ontology, fundamentality, and grounding.

Additional features such as exercises, annotated further reading, a glossary, and a companion website https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780815350491 have also been updated and will help students find their way around this subject and assist teachers in the classroom.

About the Author

Alyssa Ney is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California – Davis, USA. She works primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of physics. She is the author of The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (2021), and co-editor with David Z Albert of The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (2013).

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