For over half a century The Review of Metaphysicshas attracted a readership that reflects its contributors in being diverse, scholarly, and international. Writers whose works have been published in the Reviewinclude:
| E. M. Adams | Gilbert Harman | Richard Rorty |
| Mortimer Adler | Karsten Harries | Stanley Rosen |
| Annette C. Baier | Errol E. Harris | Kenneth L. Schmitz |
| Seth Benardete | Charles Hartshorne | Wilfrid Sellars |
| Richard Bernstein | Martin Heidegger | Albert Shalom |
| Martin Buber | W. I. Hocking | John Smith |
| Harold Cherniss | Gilbert Harman | Robert Sokolowski |
| Robert S. Cohen | Richard Kennington | Leo Strauss |
| Arthur Danto | Ivor Leclerc | Charles Taylor |
| Herbert L. Dreyfus | Harvey Mansfield | Henry Veatch |
| A. C. Ewing | Armand Maurer | Gregory Vlastos |
| J. N. Findlay | Jacques Maritain | Paul Weiss |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer | Ralph McInerny | Donald Williams |
| P. T. Geach | Joseph Owens | John Wippel |
| Alan Gewirth | Edward Pols | Karol Wojtyla |
| Nelson Goodman | W. V. O. Quine | |
| Victor Gourevitch | Nicholas Rescher | |
| R. M. Hare | Amelie Rorty |