Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available – now updated and expandedOffers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysicsIncludes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and compositionSurpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of "rising-stars"