Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.

PART I. MODALITY, TIME, AND HUMEANISM 1: James Van Cleve: There Are No Necessary Connections between Distinct Existences 2: David BuilesMichele Odisseas Impagnatiello: An Empirical Argument for Presentism PART II. QUANTITIES, PARTS, AND QUANTIFICATION 3: Mahmoud Jalloh: The *P-Theorem as a Guide to Quantity Symmetries and the Argument against Absolutism 4: David Liebesman: Partialhood 5: Turner Jason: On Doing Without Ontology: Feature-Placing on a Global Scale PART III. SYMPOSIUM: NEW ZENO CASES 6: Daniel Nolan: Send in the Clowns 7: Kaiserman AlexOfra Magidor: Infinite Jesters: Deflationary Reflections on New Zeno 8: Hawthorne John: Legal Causation and Zeno Sequences 9: Daniel Nolan: Lessons from Infinite Clowns