• It includes some of the central issues in metaphysics. It is aimed at all students who have studied some basic courses in metaphysics and philosophy. Some of the topics, which are discussed in this book are as follows: the problem of universals, the nature of abstract entities, the problem of individuation, the nature of modality, identity through time, the nature of time, the nature of parts and wholes, the problem of metaphysical indeterminacy, the Realism/anti-Realism debate.