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This is a draft and subject to change. Updated versions will be available at http://davidsanson.com/463/readings.

Ontology

  • Lewis, David, and Stephanie Lewis (1970). "Holes." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48.2: 206–212. Reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Quine, Willard V. (1948). "On What There Is." The Review of Metaphysics 2.5: 21–38. Reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Chisholm, Roderick M. (1973). “Beyond Being and Nonbeing." Philosophical Studies 24.4: 245–257. Reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Schaffer, Jonathan (2009). "On What Grounds What." In Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, David Manley, David J Chalmers, & Ryan Wasserman, Eds. Oxford University Press.

Universals

  • Russell, Bertrand (1912). "The World of Universals," ch. 9 of his The Problems of Philosophy, Home University Library. Reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Armstrong, David M. (1989). Universals: an Opinionated Introduction. Westview Press. Chapter 1 and Chapter 5. Chapter 5 is reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Price, H. H. (1953). "Universals and Resemblances", Ch. 1 of his Thinking and Experience. Hutchinson's University Library. Reprinted in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.
  • Williams, D.C. (1954). "On the Elements of Being I" Review of Metaphysics 7. Reprinted as "The Elements of Being" in Metaphysics: The Big Questions.

Particulars

  • Black, Max (1952). "The Identity of Indiscernibles," Mind 61 153-164.
  • Hawthorne, John (1995). "The Bundle Theory of Substance and the Identity of Indiscernibles", Analysis 55 (1995): 191-196

Time

  • McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis (1927). "Time." Chapter 23 of his The Nature of Existence, Vol II. Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Metaphysics the Big Questions.
  • Broad, C. D. (1938). "Ostensible Temporality," Sections 3.1 and 3.11. Chapter 35 of Vol 2, Part 1 of his Examination of MCTaggart's Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. Reprinted as "McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time" in Metaphysics the Big Questions.
  • Williams, Donald C. (1951). "The Myth of Passage," The Journal of Philosophy 48:15 457--472. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Prior, A. N. (1970). "The Notion of the Present". Studium Generale 23:245-248. Reprinted in Metaphysics: the Big Questions.
  • Christensen, Ferrel (1974). "McTaggart's Paradox and the Nature of Time," The Philosophical Quarterly 24:97 289--299.

Change

  • Quine, W. V. (1950). "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis," The Journal of Philosophy 47:22 621--633. (Part I, pp. 621-24, reprinted in MBQ)
  • Lewis, David (1983). "Survival and Identity, Postscript B" in his Philosophical Papers, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Lewis, David (1986). "The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics" in his On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Haslanger, Sally (1989). "Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics," Analysis 49 119-25.
  • Hinchliff, Mark (1996). "The Puzzle of Change," Philosophical Perspectives 10 119--136.
  • Zimmerman, Dean (1998). "Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism". In MBQ.

Modality

  • Lewis, David (1973). "Possible Worlds." Excerpt from his Counterfactuals, Blackwell. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Lewis, David (1986). "Modal Realism at Work." Excerpt from his On the Plurality of Worlds. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Chisholm, Roderick M. (1967). "Identity Through Possible Worlds: Some Questions," Noûs 1:1 1-8.
  • Lewis, David (1971). "Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies," The Journal of Philosophy 68 203-211. Reprinted in MTBQ.
  • Plantinga, Alvin. "Transworld Identity or Worldbound Individuals?"
  • Plantinga, Alvin (1976). "Actualism and Possible Worlds," Theoria 42 139--160.
  • Kripke, Saul. "Identity and Necessity"