• Preface


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Properties


• 3: Relations


• 4: States of Affairs


• 5: Laws of Nature


• 6: Reacting to Dispositionalism


• 7: Particulars


• 8: Truthmakers


• 9: Possibility, Actuality, Necessity


• 10: Limits


• 11: Absences


• 12: The Rational disciplines: Logic and Mathematics


• 13: Numbers


• 14: Classes


• 15: Time


• 16: Mind


• References

David Armstrong was Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney until his retirement in 1992

David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. On the basis of the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time, he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics.