Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Properties
3: Relations
4: States of Affairs
5: Laws of Nature
6: Reacting to Dispositionalism
7: Particulars
8: Truthmakers
9: Possibility, Actuality, Necessity
10: Limits
11: Absences
12: The Rational disciplines: Logic and Mathematics
13: Numbers
14: Classes
15: Time
16: Mind
References

About the Author

David Armstrong was Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney until his retirement in 1992

Reviews

David Armstrong is one of the main architects of the current renaissance in metaphysics, so it is very useful to have a concise summary of his latest views... As one might expect, it is a model of clarity and rich in ideas. It certainly satisfies the description "systematic" that appears in its title. Without sacrificing rigour, he has succeeded in making it as accessible as possible to as wide a philosophical audience as possible... it is a pleasure, as always, to wrestle with the deep philosophical questions that Armstrong continues to present us with so vivaciously.
*E. J. Lowe, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*