Descartes: metaphysics in the service of science -- Spinoza: metaphysics in the service of ethics -- Leibniz: metaphysics in the service of theodicy -- Hume: metaphysics committed to the flames? -- Kant: the possibility, scope, and limits of metaphysics -- Fichte: transcendentalism versus naturalism -- Hegel: transcendentalism-cum-naturalism; or, absolute idealism -- Frege: sense under scrutiny -- The early Wittgenstein: the possibility, scope, and limits of sense; or, sense, senselessness, and nonsense -- The later Wittgenstein: bringing words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use -- Carnap: the elimination of metaphysics? -- Quine: the ne plus ultra of naturalism -- Lewis: metaphysics in the service of philosophy -- Dummett: the logical basis of metaphysics -- Nietzsche: sense under scrutiny again -- Bergson: metaphysics as pure creativity -- Husserl: making sense of making sense; or, the ne plus ultra of transcendentalism -- Heidegger: letting being be -- Collingwood: metaphysics as history -- Derrida: metaphysics deconstructed? -- Deleuze: something completely different.