Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this new series is a much-needed focus for it. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.

• I. SYMPOSIUM: PROPERTY DUALISM


• 1: Ned Block: Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity


• 2: John Perry: Mary and Max and Jack and Ned


• 3: Stephen L. White: A Posterioiri Identities and the Requirements of Rationality


• II. THE OPEN FUTURE


• 4: Trenton Merricks: Goodbye Growing Block


• 5: Eli Hirsch: Rashi's View of the Open Future: Determinateness and Bivalience


• 6: Peter Forrest: General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time


• III. ISSUES IN ONTOLOGY


• 7: Thomas Hofweber: Inexpressible Properties and Propositions


• 8: Michael J. Loux: Aristotle's Constituent Ontology


• 9: Phillip Bricker: The Relation Between General and Particular: Entailment vs. Supervenience


• 10: John Hawthorne: Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity


• IV. METAPHYSICS AND THEISM


• 11: Brian Leftow: God and the Problem of Universals


• 12: Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower: A Theistic Argument Against Platonism (And in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity)


• 13: Hud Hudson: Beautiful Evils