This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics.

Why Metaphysics? A Rather Ambitious Introduction Daniel D. Novotný and LukáS Novák Part 1: What is Metaphysics? 1. What Is Metaphysics? Realist, Conceptualist, and Neutralist Answers Jorge Gracia Part 2: Being and its Properties 2. Existence: Two Dogmas of Analysis William F. Vallicella 3. Being and One Jonathan Lowe 4. Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good Eduard Feser 5. Being and Cognition Gyula Klima Part 3: Causes and Principles of Being 6. Essentiality as Foundationality Michael Gorman 7. Aristotle's Hylomorphism Michael J. Loux 8. Is Form Structure? David S. Oderberg 9. Aristotelian Agent-Causation Edmund Runggaldier Part 4: Varieties of Being 10. Materiality and Immateriality Uwe Meixner 11. Quantity and Number James Franklin Part 5: Divine Being 12. God's Existence Robert Koons 13. Divine Self-Exiistence William Lane Craig Part 6: Beyond Being 14. Non-Existence and Non-Existents Nicholas Rescher