ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses principally on metaphysical contingentism rather than entity contingentism. It outlines three positions: global metaphysical contingentism, global metaphysical necessitarianism, and metaphysical moderatism. The first is the view that all metaphysical principles are contingent, the second that all metaphysical principles are necessary, and the last that at least some metaphysical principles are contingent. Arguments for each view are considered, and it is suggested that jointly, these arguments tend to militate in favour of metaphysical moderatism.
