Published annually, this book brings together original and first-rate articles written by leading scholars in the field of philosophy.

This 14th volume in the Philosophical Perspectives series, explores issues of action and freedom. Original essays by leading scholars include: The Survival of the Sentient, and Goal-directed Action: Teleological Explanations, Causal Theories, and Deviance.Alternative Possibilities and Causal Histories, Free Will Remains a Mystery, and From Self Psychology to Moral Psychology..

Externalism, Naturalism, Mathematics, Ontology, Personal Identity, Time and Tense, The Metaphysics of Reference, The Metaphysics of Properties, Conceivability, The Physical, and Theoretical Identity, and Actualism- these are some of the central issues addressed in the essays of this fifteenth volume devoted to metaphysics.

• Essays discussing metaphysics from some of the foremost academics in philosophy.
  
• Topics include Ontology, Personal Identity, the metaphysics of reference, and the metaphysics of properties.

Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.

• Original essays by the foremost thinkers and academics of philosophy discussing the philosophy of language and mind
• Some of the main topics include demonstratives and anaphora, meaning and naming, belief and privileged access, modality, concepts and time, and paradox

The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the logic. results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living...

The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living...