Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction: Being as such 1
6. Pure philosophical ontology
7. What it is to be (on Heidegger) 12
8. Combinatorial ontology 42
9. Why there is something rather than nothing 89
10. Why there is only one logically contingent actual world 109
11. Concepts of existence in philosophical logic and the analysis of being qua being 134
12. Applied ontology and the metaphysics of science
13. Ontological commitment (on Quine) 156
14. Appearance, reality, substance, transcendence 182
15. Physical entities: space, time, matter and causation, physical states ef affairs and events, natural laws 193
16. Abstract entities, particular and universal: numbers, sets, properties, qualities, relations, prepesitiens and possibilities, logical, mathematical and metaphysical laws 206
17. Subjectivity of mind in the werid of objective physical facts 233
18. God, a divine supernatural mind? 253
19. Ontology of culturo: language, art and artefacts 265
20. Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology 275
21. Notes 281
22. Bibliography 309
23. Index 329