Oxford University Press

According to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbours worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely at Ugaritic deities, Mark Smith examines the meaning of...

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Contextualism has been hotly debated in recent epistemology and philosophy of language.    The Case for Contextualism is a state-of-the-art exposition and defense of the contextualist position, presenting and advancing the most powerful arguments in favor of the view and responding to the most pressing objections facing it....

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology, semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects....