Abstract

Perspectives in Metaphysics is a multi-author introduction to metaphysics, with 14 chapters each authored or co-authored by leading and emerging scholars in the field. It covers classic topics like personal identity, free will, parts and wholes, and change alongside topics often overlooked in introductory texts, such as social groups, gender, social construction, and Buddhist metaphysics. Students will encounter metaphysics as a living and diverse field of philosophical inquiry.