Metaphysics

Some of the topics we've covered have been in the broad category of "metaphysics." Here is an excellent and fun to read short book that gives an overview of many topics in (analytic) metaphysics.

Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics

Earl Conee and Theodore Sider

This is an introduction to metaphysics for students and non-philosophers. (Philosophers: it's supposed to be the kind of book you can give to your friends and family, when they ask what you do for a living.) It is published by Oxford University Press.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 (Sider): Personal Identity over Time, and chapter 5 (Conee): Why Not Nothing?