Abbreviations
EM	The Elements of Metaphysics, W. R. Carter	required text for the course
*WTA*	The Way Things Are: Basic Readings in Metaphysics, W. R. Carter, editor	required text for the course
*MTBQ*	Metaphysics: The Big Questions, Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, editors	optional text
MA	Metaphysics: An Anthology, Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, editors	optional text

Topic 1. The Nature of Metaphysics

“What is Metaphysics”, in MTBQ, pages 1, ff. (A good general introduction to the subject.)
See “Suggestions for Further Reading,” entry for Chapter 1: Metaphysics, in EM, page 177.

Topic 2. Idealism.

Berkeley develops and defends his own version of metaphysical idealism in the Second and Third Dialogues of Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. The work appears in many editions and is included in many introductory level philosophy anthologies.

On Berkeley in particular, see the list of “Suggested Further Readings” on page 212 of WTA.

See “Suggestions for Further Reading,” entry for Chapter 2: Idealism, in EM, page 177.

MA, Part IX, Realism/AntiRealism. This section of the anthology contains six contemporary papers representing the current state of the debate between realism and its anti-realist competitors. There is a major difference between modern debate over realism, and the form it took in Berkeley's day: the debate between Berkeley and his opponents centered on the nature of sense-perception; the modern debate focuses on language. (This particular section of the anthology is more difficult than the others.)

Topic 3. Material Minds

See chapters 13, 15, 17, and 18 in WTA. (Chapter 13, by René Descartes, is Meditation II of Descartes' Meditations. Carter really should have included Meditation VI here, since that's where Descartes gives the main part of his argument for substance dualism.) See also the “Suggested Further Readings” at the ends of chapters 13-18.

Chapters 34-38 of MTBQ, and chapters 26-31 of MA, are relevant to Swinburne's arguments for substance dualism (which we will be reading in Chapter 14 of WTA).

One of the very best introductions to philosophy of mind is Paul Churchland, Matter and Consciousness, Bradford/MIT Press, 1988. Churchland is a materialist, but he considers carefully a wide range of arguments for dualism.

See “Suggestions for Further Reading” entry for Chapter 3: Material Minds, in EM, page 177.

Topic 4. Substances [and Qualities]

H. H. Price, "Universals and Resemblances", MTBQ, Chapter 1. Price considers some objections to the thesis that qualities are universals, and suggests another theory in which resemblances, not universals, play the fundamental role
D, C, Williams, "The Elements of Being", MTBQ, Chapter 2. Williams develops and defends another alternative to the idea that qualities are universals.
Bertrand Russell, "The Principle of Individuation", MTBQ, Chapter 3. Russell here defends the idea that substances can be understood as bundles of universals.
Dean Zimmerman, "Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory". MTBQ, Chapter 4. This entertaining paper takes the form of a dialogue. One character defends Russell's view that a substance is just a bundle of qualities (universals). The other character defends a view attributed to Locke, that in addition to its qualities, each substance must contain a mysterious, "substratum" that supports properties, but has no properties itself.
See also "Suggestions for Further Reading", entry for Chapter 4: Substances, in EM, pages 177-178.
See also "Suggested Further Reading," WTA, page 162.

Topic 4. Parts and Wholes (Omitted)

Topic 5. Change [and Time]

Topic 6. Personal Identity

MTBQ, chapters 34-37.

MA, chapters 26-31.