Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Ways and Worlds
1: Possible Worlds
2: On What Possible Worlds Could Not Be
3: Impossibilities
II. Carving Up Logical Space
4: Anti-Essentialism
5: Varieties of Supervenience
III. Identity In and Across Possible Worlds
6: Counterparts and Identity
7: Vague Identity
8: The Interaction of Modality with Quantifiers and Identity
IV. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics
9: Reference and Necessity
10: On Considering a Possible World as Actual
11: Conceptual Truth and Metaphysical Necessity
V. Subjective Possibilities
12: What is it Like to be a Zombie?
13: Comparing Qualia Across Persons
14: On Thomas Nagel's Objective Self

Reviews

`This collection brings together important essays of consistently high quality by a leading contemporary metaphysician. The prospect of a collection offers the author the opportunity to take an overview of his work and to identify its core and unifying themes. And when this opportunity is taken, what is distinctive and demanding of our attention in the authors work emerges more clearly and the work itself emerges with added significance. Robert Stalnaker
has taken this opportunity, and so Ways a World Might Be is a collection which stands as a genuinely valuable addition to his previously published work and to the literature of contemporary metaphysics.'
John Divers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews