Existence : Essays in Ontology (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction: inside and outside the ontology room; 1. Five questions; 2. The new antimetaphysicians; 3. Being, existence, and ontological commitment; 4. Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities; 5. Can variables be explained away?; 6. Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism; 7. Alston on ontological commitment; 8. A theory of properties; 9. What is an ontological category?; 10. Relational vs. constituent ontologies; 11. Can mereological sums change their parts?; 12. Causation and the mental.