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The Routledge Companion To Metaphysics Is Organized Into Three Parts: History Of Metaphysics, Ontology, And Metaphysics And Science. Each Section Features An Introduction Which Places The Range Of Essays In Context, While A Glossary Allows Reference To Key Terms And Definitions. General Introduction: What Is Metaphysics? / Robin Le Poidevin -- History Of Metaphysics -- Introduction To Part I: Millennia Of Metaphysics / Peter Simons -- Presocratic Themes: Being, Not-being And Mind / David Sedley -- Plato: Arguments For Forms / Richard Patterson -- Aristotle: Form, Matter And Substance / Stephen Makin -- Aristotle: Time And Change / Ursula Coope -- Medieval Metaphysics I: The Problem Of Universals / Claude Panaccio -- Medieval Metaphysics Ii: Things, Non-things, God And Time / John Marenbon -- Descartes: The Real Distinction / Dugald Murdoch -- Hobbes: Matter, Motion And Cause / George Macdonald Ross -- Spinoza: Substance, Attribute And Mode / Richard Glauser -- Locke: The Primary And Secondary Quality Distinction / Lisa Downing -- Leibniz: Mind-body Causation And Pre-established Harmony / Gonzalo Rodriguez-pereyra -- Berkeley: Arguments For Idealism / Tom Stoneham -- Hume: Necessary Connections And Distinct Existences / Alexander Miller -- Kant: The Possibility Of Metaphysics / Lucy Allais -- Hegel And Schopenhauer: Reason And Will / Rolf-peter Horstmann -- Anti-metaphysics I: Nietzsche / Maudemarie Clark -- Bradley: The Supra-relational Absolute / W.j. Mander -- Whitehead: Process And Cosmology / Peter Simons -- Heidegger: The Question Of Being / Herman Philipse -- Anti-metaphysics Ii: Verificationism And Kindred Views / Cheryl Misak -- Metaphysics Revivified / Avrum Stroll -- Ontology: On What Exists -- Introduction To Part Ii: Being And Related Matters / Ross P. Cameron -- To Be / Chris Daly -- Not To Be / Graham Priest -- Razor Arguments / Peter Forrest -- Substance / David Robb -- Intrinsic And Extrinsic Properties / Ross P. Cameron -- Universals: The Contempor