| Ontology |
| 1 | No readings assigned. |
| 2 | Quine, Willard V. "On What There Is." The Review of Metaphysics 2, no. 1 (1948): 21–38. |
| 3 | Carnap, Rudolf. "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (1950): 20–40. |
| 4 | Unger, Peter. "The Problem of the Many." Midwest Studies In Philosophy 5, no. 1 (1980): 411–68. |
| 5 |
 Lewis, David. "Many, But Almost One." In Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780521587877. [Preview with Google Books] |
| Time |
| 6 | McTaggart, J. McT. E. Time: An Excerpt from "The Nature of Existence." |
| 7 | Parsons, Josh. "A–Theory for B–Theorists." The Philosophical Quarterly 52, no. 206 (2002): 1–20. |
| 8 | Lewis, David.  "The Paradoxes of Time Travel." (PDF) American Philosophical Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1976): 145–52. |
| Identity |
| 9 |
Parfit, Derek. Chapters 10 and 11 in Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN: 9780198246152. [Preview with Google books] |
| 10 |
———. Chapter 12 in Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN: 9780198246152. [Preview with Google books] |
| 11 | Lewis, David. "Survival and Identity." Philosophical Papers, 1983. |
| 12 | Gendler, Tamar Szabo. "Personal Identity and Thought–Experiments." The Philosophical Quarterly 52, no. 206 (2002): 34–54. |
| Modality |
| 13 |
Plantinga, Alvin. Chapters 1–2 in The Nature of Necessity. Clarendon Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780198244141. |
| 14 | Chisholm, Roderick M. "Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions." Noûs 1, no. 1 (1967): 1–8. |
| 15 | Lewis, David. "Counterparts or Double Lives?" |
| 16 | ———. "Counterparts or Double Lives?" (cont.) |
| Free Will |
| 17 | Van Inwagen, Peter. "The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism." Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition 27, no. 3 (1975): 185–99. |
| 18 | Lewis, David. "Are We Free to Break the Laws?" Theoria 47, no. 3 (1981): 113–21. |
| 19 | Beebee, Helen. "Local Miracle Compatibilism." Noûs 37, no. 2 (2003): 258–77. |
| Causation |
| 20 | Davidson, Donald. "Causal Relations." (PDF) The Journal of Philosophy 64, no. 21 (1967): 691–703. (Sixty–Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division) |
| 21 | Lewis, David. "Causation." (PDF - 1.3MB) The Journal of Philosophy 70, no. 17 (1973): 556–67. (Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division) |
| 22 | McGrath, Sarah. "Causation by Omission: A Dilemma." Philosophical Studies 123, no. 1–2 (2005): 125–48. |
| Ontology, Reconsidered |
| 23 | Hirsch, Eli. "Ontology and Alternative Languages." Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology (2009): 231–58. |
| 24 | Bennett, Karen. "Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology." Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, 2009. |
| 25 | Schaffer, Jonathan. "On What Grounds What." Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology (2009): 347—83. |
