Daniel D. Novotný is post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in ¿eské Bud¿jovice, Czech Republic He has co-edited Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012) and authored Ens Rationis from Suárez to Caramuel (2013).

LukᚠNovák is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, and Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in ¿eské Bud¿jovice, Czech Republic.He has co-edited Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012), and is editor of the journal Studia Neoaristotelica.

Why Metaphysics? A Rather Ambitious Introduction Daniel D. Novotný and LukᚠNovák 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