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This book was intended as a very
first read on the subject of metaphysics. If you are
interested, what should you try next? A lot of material in
philosophy is technical and should not be tackled lightly.
In that case, I recommend moving next on to some of the
lengthier and more involved introductions as an
intermediate step. The following are all worth a
try:
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John Carroll and Ned Markosian, An Introduction to Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2010).
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Jonathan Tallant, Metaphysics: An Introduction (Continuum, 2011).
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Michael Jubien, Contemporary Metaphysics: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1997).
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Michael Loux, Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2006).
In addition, there are plenty of
books addressing the chapter topics of this book. Here are
just a few that are particularly recommended, though they
go beyond introductory level:
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David Armstrong, Nominalism and Realism and A Theory of Universals (both Cambridge, 1978).
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Joe Melia, Modality (Acumen, 2003).
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Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz, Substance: Its Nature and Existence (Routledge, 1997).
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Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist (Oxford, 2001).
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Kathleen Wilkes, Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments (Oxford, 1993).
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Lawrence Lombard, Events: A Metaphysical Study (Routledge, 1986).
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E. J. Lowe, A Survey of Metaphysics (Oxford, 2002) and The Possibility of Metaphysics (Oxford, 1998).
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Phil Dowe, Physical Causation (Cambridge, 2000).
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Robin Le Poidevin, Travels in Four Dimensions (Oxford, 2003).
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Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross Cameron, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009).
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Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum, Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011).
