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• Cover
• Half Title
• Also available from Bloomsbury
• Title Page
• Contents
• 1 An introduction to truth-making
• Truth-making: maximalism and necessitarianism
• The nature of the relation
• Metaphysics and physics
• Metaphysical desiderata and tools
• Intuitions
• Summing up and using this book
• Recommended introductory reading
• Study questions
• 2 The special composition question: ‘Physical’ objects
• Basic options: contact and fastening
• A very liberal reply
• Problems
• Restricted theories of composition
• Brutal problems
• Nihilism
• Organicism
• Teleological intuitions
• Really a debate?
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• 3 Abstract objects
• As if by magic …
• The nature of numbers
• Why believe in AOs?
• Formalizing indispensability
• Paraphrase
• Weaseling and the new indispensability argument
• Epistemological concerns
• Back to nominalism
• Baker and the ‘enhanced indispensability argument’
• Fiction
• Concluding remarks
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• 4 Modality
• Lewis on worlds: genuine modal realism
• Why believe it?
• Actuality
• Counterparts
• Ersatzism
• Linguistic erstazism
• Aliens
• Propositional ersatzism
• Reduction?
• Combinatorialism
• The problems reconsidered
• Conventionalism
• Fictionalism
• Traditional problems for fictionalism
• Powers and modality
• The impossible
• Conclusion
• Recommended reading by topic
• Study questions
• 5 Properties
• Universals
• Predicates and properties
• Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
• Tropes
• Nominalism
• Class nominalism
• Resemblance nominalism
• Primitive predication
• Properties as dispositions?
• Dispositions: tropes or a kind of universal?
• The distinction between property and particular
• Conclusions
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• 6 Substratum and other theories
• Subtance
• Substantial problems
• Bundle Theory
• Responding
• States of affairs
• Bradley’s regress
• Return to substance
• One substance or many?
• Concluding remarks
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• 7 Time
• McTaggart
• B-theory
• Tensed truths
• The passage of time
• Sensing passage
• Doing enough to be special?
• Truths about the past
• Singular times and properties solutions
• Ersatzer proposals
• Spans
• Cross-time relations
• Growing Block
• The special theory of relativity
• Can the presentist reply?
• New routes?
• Time travel
• Conclusion
• Recommended reading by topic
• Study questions
• 8 Persistence
• Denying A1: perdurance and exdurance
• Perdurance
• Endurance
• Objections to the endurantist solution
• Adverbialism
• The philosophy of time to the rescue?
• Returning to A1
• Exdurance
• In favour of exdurance?
• Counterparts reconsidered
• The ‘what it’s like’ concern
• Conclusion
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• 9 Causation
• Reductive analysis
• The counterfactual theory of causation illustrated
• Counterexamples
• More troubles for the CTC: the analysis is insufficient
• Contrastivism
• Elimination
• Primitivism
• Agent causation
• Asking the right question
• Process theory
• Concerns for Dowe (among others)
• Production and dependence
• Conclusions
• Recommended reading
• 10 Truth-making reconsidered
• Negative existentials
• Totality
• Bizzare necessary connection
• Implausible nature
• Wrongheaded
• Negative facts: rehabilitated?
• The world to the rescue
• Motivations for maximalism
• Undermining the motivation for maximalism
• Maximalism and asymmetry
• Catch the cheaters
• Restricted truth-maker theory
• Problems with restriction
• A defence and an extreme form of restriction
• Consequences of extreme restriction
• Supervenience
• Conclusions
• Recommended reading
• Study questions
• References
• Index
• Copyright Page