Table of Contents

Introduction
1. "A Sense of Unity," The Journal of Philosophy, September l978
2. "Basic Objects: A Reply to Xu," Mind & Language, 1997
3. "Objectivity Without Objects," in World Congress of Philosophers, Volume 5: Epistemology, 1999
4. "The Vagueness of Identity," Philosophical Topics, 2000
5. "Quantifier Variance and Realism," Philosophical Issues, 2002
6. "Against Revisionary Ontology," Philosophical Topics, 2003
7. "Comments on Theodore Sider's Four Dimensionalism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, May 2004
8. "Sosa's Existential Relativism," in Ernest Sosa and His Critics, Blackwell, 2004
9. "Physical-Object Ontology, Verbal Disputes, and Common Sense," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, January 2005
10, "Ontological Arguments: Interpretive Charity and Quantifier Variance", in Metaphysical Debates , Blackwell, 2008
11. "Language, Ontology, and Structure", Nous, September 2008
12. "Ontology and Alternative Languages", Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2009

About the Author

Eli Hirsch is Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University; he is the author of Dividing Reality.

Reviews

'This looks great -- really focusses in on a single, very important strand in his thinking, and it's the strand that's been getting a lot of attention lately. This makes really good sense.' Dean Zimmerman, Philosophy, Rutgers University
'The bottom line is that I would definitely support the project. Hirsch is great, and his papers on this topic have been very important. So it would be good to collect them all in this way. I might also add that this topic is 'hot' right now.' Ted Sider, Philosophy, NYU