Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Lowe, A Survey of Metaphysics (Oxford, 2002) and The Possibility of Metaphysics (Oxford, 1998)

Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross Cameron, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009)

Lawrence Lombard, Events: A Metaphysical Study (Routledge, 1986)

Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist (Oxford, 2001)

John Carroll and Ned Markosian, An Introduction to Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2010)

Michael Loux, Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2006)

we don’t do metaphysics so that we can stay healthy and wealthy: we want to stay healthy and wealthy so that we can do metaphysics.

We can reject accounts of some feature of the world if they are absurd, either by being counterintuitive or outright contradictory.

It is almost as if the natural sense of wonder with which we are born is disciplined out of us.

The thought wasn’t about the way the world was; it was about a way the world wasn’t.