Bringing together for the first time a comprehensive selection of Russell's writing on metaphysics in one volume, Stephen Mumford chronicles the metaphysical nature of these insights through accessible introductions to the texts.

Introduction; Part I Idealism; Chapter 1 Greek Exercises; Chapter 2 On the Distinction Between the Psychological and Metaphysical Points of View; Chapter 3 The Free-Will Problem from an Idealist Standpoint; Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Sciences; Chapter 5 Seems, Madam? Nay, it is; Part II Ontology (I); Chapter 6 The Principles of Mathematics; Chapter 7 The Existential Import of Propositions; Chapter 8 Three Letters to Meinong; Chapter 9 The Basis of Realism; Chapter 10 Analytic Realism; Chapter 11 The Philosophy of Logical Atomism; Part III Universals; Chapter 12 On the Relations of Universals and Part iculars; Chapter 13 The Problem of Universals; Part IV Causality and Laws; Chapter 14 On the Notion of Cause; Chapter 15 Causal Laws in Physics; Chapter 16 Physics and Metaphysics; Chapter 17 Causal Laws; Part V Ontology (II); Chapter 18 Vagueness; Chapter 19 Physics and Neutral Monism; Chapter 20 Language and Metaphysics; Chapter 21 The Principle of Individuation;