Oxford University Press

Scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention.    The Believing Primate draws on the expertise of scientists, philosophers, and theologians, from across a wide spectrum of debate, to describe and discuss current scientific accounts....

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The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that severely affect        children and adults. For sufferers and their family, the illness presents enormous        physical and psychological challenges. Written specifically for people with muscular        dystrophy and their families, this book answers many of the questions asked...

In his Middle High German romance Parzival (c. 1210), Wolfram von Eschenbach depicts the Holy Grail not as a cup, but as a gemstone. G. Ronald Murphy seeks to illuminate this mystery and to enable a far better appreciation of Wolfram's insight into the nature of the Grail and its relationship to the Crusades. Wolfram's stone, Murphy argues, is...

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role....

Leading philosophers and psychologists offer a rigorous assessment of the        commonsense view that perceptual experience is an immediate awareness of        mind-independent objects. They examine the nature of perception, its role in the        acquisition of knowledge, the role of causation in perception, and how...