Aviad Kleinberg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231174701
- eISBN:
- 9780231540247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231174701.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Where outraged iconoclasts and horrified philosophers are told that seeing is believing.
Where outraged iconoclasts and horrified philosophers are told that seeing is believing.
Andreas C. Lehmann, John A. Sloboda, and Robert H. Woody
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195146103
- eISBN:
- 9780199851164
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195146103.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians, performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to address the needs and ...
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This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians, performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to address the needs and priorities of the performing musician rather than the research community, it reviews the relevant psychological research findings in relation to situations and issues faced by musicians, and draws out practical implications for the practice of teaching and performance. Rather than a list of dos and don'ts, the book equips musicians with an understanding of the basic psychological principles that underlie music performance, enabling each reader to apply the content flexibly to the task at hand. Following a brief review of the scientific method as a way of thinking about the issues and problems in music, the text addresses the nature–nurture problem, identification and assessment of musical aptitude, musical development, adult skill maintenance, technical and expressive skills, practice, interpretation and expressivity, sight-reading, memorization, creativity, and composition, performance anxiety, critical listening, and teaching and learning. While there is a large body of empirical research regarding music, most musicians lack the scientific training to interpret these studies. This text bridges this gap by relating these skills to the musician's experiences, addressing their needs directly with non-technical language and practical application. It includes multiple illustrations, brief music examples, cases, questions, and suggestions for further reading.Less
This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians, performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to address the needs and priorities of the performing musician rather than the research community, it reviews the relevant psychological research findings in relation to situations and issues faced by musicians, and draws out practical implications for the practice of teaching and performance. Rather than a list of dos and don'ts, the book equips musicians with an understanding of the basic psychological principles that underlie music performance, enabling each reader to apply the content flexibly to the task at hand. Following a brief review of the scientific method as a way of thinking about the issues and problems in music, the text addresses the nature–nurture problem, identification and assessment of musical aptitude, musical development, adult skill maintenance, technical and expressive skills, practice, interpretation and expressivity, sight-reading, memorization, creativity, and composition, performance anxiety, critical listening, and teaching and learning. While there is a large body of empirical research regarding music, most musicians lack the scientific training to interpret these studies. This text bridges this gap by relating these skills to the musician's experiences, addressing their needs directly with non-technical language and practical application. It includes multiple illustrations, brief music examples, cases, questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195367607
- eISBN:
- 9780199867264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367607.003.0013
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and ...
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This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and amblyopia and stereopsis.Less
This chapter reviews the effects of early deprivation of sight in one or both eyes. The discussions cover the effects of dark rearing; monocular deprivation; the critical period; amblyopia; and amblyopia and stereopsis.
John A. Sloboda
- Published in print:
- 1986
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198521280
- eISBN:
- 9780191706257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198521280.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter focuses on non-improvisatory performance of a score. It reviews cognitive processes in sight-reading, including eye movements, errors in reading, and expressive sight-reading. These all ...
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This chapter focuses on non-improvisatory performance of a score. It reviews cognitive processes in sight-reading, including eye movements, errors in reading, and expressive sight-reading. These all demonstrate the involvement of well-developed mental representations in expert sight-reading. In treating expert prepared performance, it covers memorization, fingering, and synchronization. The relative lack of research into performance, as compared to perception, is noted.Less
This chapter focuses on non-improvisatory performance of a score. It reviews cognitive processes in sight-reading, including eye movements, errors in reading, and expressive sight-reading. These all demonstrate the involvement of well-developed mental representations in expert sight-reading. In treating expert prepared performance, it covers memorization, fingering, and synchronization. The relative lack of research into performance, as compared to perception, is noted.
Todd Lewis and Subarna Tuladhar
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195341829
- eISBN:
- 9780199866816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341829.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
The poet describes how Siddhārtha chose to leave the palace in order to become a religious mendicant. Although King Shuddhodana tried to entangle the prince in royal life, this is all undone after ...
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The poet describes how Siddhārtha chose to leave the palace in order to become a religious mendicant. Although King Shuddhodana tried to entangle the prince in royal life, this is all undone after the prince sees the “four passing sights”: an old person, the sick, the dead, a mendicant, three visions of suffering and one pointing the way beyond it. In depicting the departure from the palace, the poet follows classical sources in having this occur right after Siddhārtha's son's birth, followed by a long standoff with his father in which Siddhārtha seeks his permission. In the departure scene, the poet has lightning and thunder explain what in the ancient biographies are supernormal forces. The flight on horseback, with his horseman Chandaka, conveys the rich verdant scenery of the monsoon season. The chapter ends as Siddhārtha cuts his hair off, then sends his horse and Chandaka back to Kapilavastu.Less
The poet describes how Siddhārtha chose to leave the palace in order to become a religious mendicant. Although King Shuddhodana tried to entangle the prince in royal life, this is all undone after the prince sees the “four passing sights”: an old person, the sick, the dead, a mendicant, three visions of suffering and one pointing the way beyond it. In depicting the departure from the palace, the poet follows classical sources in having this occur right after Siddhārtha's son's birth, followed by a long standoff with his father in which Siddhārtha seeks his permission. In the departure scene, the poet has lightning and thunder explain what in the ancient biographies are supernormal forces. The flight on horseback, with his horseman Chandaka, conveys the rich verdant scenery of the monsoon season. The chapter ends as Siddhārtha cuts his hair off, then sends his horse and Chandaka back to Kapilavastu.
Hugh Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474449861
- eISBN:
- 9781474477086
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474449861.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The first book-length study of connections between these two major authors, this book reads the highly descriptive impressionist fiction of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared ...
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The first book-length study of connections between these two major authors, this book reads the highly descriptive impressionist fiction of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. By proposing ‘scenic realism’ as a term to describe their affinities of epistemology and literary art, this study seeks to establish that the two novelists’ treatment of the senses in relation to the physically encompassing world creates a distinctive outward-looking pairing within the broader ‘inward turn’ of the realist novel. This ‘borderland of the senses’ was intensively investigated by a variety of nineteenth-century empiricists, and mid- and late-Victorian discussions in physics and physiology are seen to be the illuminating texts by which to gauge the acute qualities of attention shared by Hardy’s and Conrad’s fiction. In an argument that re-frames the ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modernist’ containers by which the writers have been conventionally separated, thirteen major works are analysed without flattening their differences and individuality, but within a broad ‘field-view’ of reality introduced by late-classical physics. With its focus on nature and the environment, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses displays the vivid delineations of humankind’s place in nature that are at the heart of both authors’ works.Less
The first book-length study of connections between these two major authors, this book reads the highly descriptive impressionist fiction of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. By proposing ‘scenic realism’ as a term to describe their affinities of epistemology and literary art, this study seeks to establish that the two novelists’ treatment of the senses in relation to the physically encompassing world creates a distinctive outward-looking pairing within the broader ‘inward turn’ of the realist novel. This ‘borderland of the senses’ was intensively investigated by a variety of nineteenth-century empiricists, and mid- and late-Victorian discussions in physics and physiology are seen to be the illuminating texts by which to gauge the acute qualities of attention shared by Hardy’s and Conrad’s fiction. In an argument that re-frames the ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modernist’ containers by which the writers have been conventionally separated, thirteen major works are analysed without flattening their differences and individuality, but within a broad ‘field-view’ of reality introduced by late-classical physics. With its focus on nature and the environment, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses displays the vivid delineations of humankind’s place in nature that are at the heart of both authors’ works.
Gary Hatfield
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199597277
- eISBN:
- 9780191741883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199597277.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Vision
This chapter provides an overview of the phenomenology of size perception and the use of instructions to tease apart phenomenal and cognitive aspects. It develops his own recent proposals concerning ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the phenomenology of size perception and the use of instructions to tease apart phenomenal and cognitive aspects. It develops his own recent proposals concerning the geometry of visual space. The chapter proposes that visual space is contracted along the lines of sight. This contraction would explain the apparent convergence of railway tracks, but without invoking a “proximal mode” experience. Parallel railway tracks receding into the distance project converging lines onto the retinas. A true proximal mode representation would show these lines converging as if in a vertical plane. But we experience them as converging while also receding in depth along the ground. The chapter suggests that this calls for a third geometry of visual space, intermediate between a linear perspective projection and full phenomenal constancy (that is, phenomenal experience of the tracks as not converging). The chapter attributes reports of full constancy to cognitive factors.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the phenomenology of size perception and the use of instructions to tease apart phenomenal and cognitive aspects. It develops his own recent proposals concerning the geometry of visual space. The chapter proposes that visual space is contracted along the lines of sight. This contraction would explain the apparent convergence of railway tracks, but without invoking a “proximal mode” experience. Parallel railway tracks receding into the distance project converging lines onto the retinas. A true proximal mode representation would show these lines converging as if in a vertical plane. But we experience them as converging while also receding in depth along the ground. The chapter suggests that this calls for a third geometry of visual space, intermediate between a linear perspective projection and full phenomenal constancy (that is, phenomenal experience of the tracks as not converging). The chapter attributes reports of full constancy to cognitive factors.
Carol Jacobs
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171823
- eISBN:
- 9780231540100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171823.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This is a reading of Sebald's “After Nature” with regard to the interrelation of sight and blindness, ethics, naming and identity, and signification through acts of repetition.
This is a reading of Sebald's “After Nature” with regard to the interrelation of sight and blindness, ethics, naming and identity, and signification through acts of repetition.
Dean Keith Simonton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199753628
- eISBN:
- 9780199950027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753628.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
Donald Campbell proposed that scientific creativity and discovery could be best understood as entailing blind variation and selective retention (BVSR). This proposal is developed by defining ...
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Donald Campbell proposed that scientific creativity and discovery could be best understood as entailing blind variation and selective retention (BVSR). This proposal is developed by defining blindness in terms of the magnitude of decoupling between variant probabilities and their corresponding utilities. The selection part of BVSR is then defined according to whether variant selection is simultaneous or sequential and external or internal. These definitions provide the basis for identification criteria that can be applied to determine where ideational variation falls on the blind-sighted continuum. Explicit blindness can be obtained by systematic or stochastic combinatorial procedures, whereas implicit blindness becomes apparent when variations have certain properties of blindness or are generated by processes that should yield blindness. The chapter discusses the most common criticisms of BVSR, some that arise from misunderstandings and others that are rooted in misconceptions. The chapter concludes by discussing BVSR in terms of a three-criteria definition of creative ideas.Less
Donald Campbell proposed that scientific creativity and discovery could be best understood as entailing blind variation and selective retention (BVSR). This proposal is developed by defining blindness in terms of the magnitude of decoupling between variant probabilities and their corresponding utilities. The selection part of BVSR is then defined according to whether variant selection is simultaneous or sequential and external or internal. These definitions provide the basis for identification criteria that can be applied to determine where ideational variation falls on the blind-sighted continuum. Explicit blindness can be obtained by systematic or stochastic combinatorial procedures, whereas implicit blindness becomes apparent when variations have certain properties of blindness or are generated by processes that should yield blindness. The chapter discusses the most common criticisms of BVSR, some that arise from misunderstandings and others that are rooted in misconceptions. The chapter concludes by discussing BVSR in terms of a three-criteria definition of creative ideas.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610689
- eISBN:
- 9781469612522
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469610696_Guterl
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things ...
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This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, it redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important. Zooming out for the bigger picture, the author illuminates the long history of the practice of seeing—and believing in—race, and reveals that our troublesome faith in the details discerned by the discriminating glance is widespread and very popular. In so doing, he upends the possibility of a postracial society by revealing how deeply race is embedded in our culture, with implications that are often matters of life and death.Less
This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, it redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important. Zooming out for the bigger picture, the author illuminates the long history of the practice of seeing—and believing in—race, and reveals that our troublesome faith in the details discerned by the discriminating glance is widespread and very popular. In so doing, he upends the possibility of a postracial society by revealing how deeply race is embedded in our culture, with implications that are often matters of life and death.
Michael Hunter
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300243581
- eISBN:
- 9780300249460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300243581.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter considers changing attitudes during the long eighteenth century to second sight — the uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee the future — in Scotland. This was a topic which ...
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This chapter considers changing attitudes during the long eighteenth century to second sight — the uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee the future — in Scotland. This was a topic which fascinated Boyle in the late seventeenth century. This chapter illustrates how his enquiries on the subject began a tradition of empirical study of the phenomenon which continued into the eighteenth century. But then a change came, and by about 1800 the possibility of second sight was increasingly rejected among English and Scottish intellectuals on the grounds that it was incompatible with the ‘principles’ by which the universe operated. In parallel with this, however, a separate tradition emerged in which second sight and related phenomena were deemed appropriate for imaginative interpretation by poets and others, which is significant in itself.Less
This chapter considers changing attitudes during the long eighteenth century to second sight — the uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee the future — in Scotland. This was a topic which fascinated Boyle in the late seventeenth century. This chapter illustrates how his enquiries on the subject began a tradition of empirical study of the phenomenon which continued into the eighteenth century. But then a change came, and by about 1800 the possibility of second sight was increasingly rejected among English and Scottish intellectuals on the grounds that it was incompatible with the ‘principles’ by which the universe operated. In parallel with this, however, a separate tradition emerged in which second sight and related phenomena were deemed appropriate for imaginative interpretation by poets and others, which is significant in itself.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0003
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
Hill, Hick, and Rolek return to the site of the ivorybill sighting and repeatedly hear and see what seem to be Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. The sightings culminated with a sighting by Rolek of two birds ...
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Hill, Hick, and Rolek return to the site of the ivorybill sighting and repeatedly hear and see what seem to be Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. The sightings culminated with a sighting by Rolek of two birds flying together. Two birds suggested a breeding pair and gave hope that a nest could be found in the spring.Less
Hill, Hick, and Rolek return to the site of the ivorybill sighting and repeatedly hear and see what seem to be Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. The sightings culminated with a sighting by Rolek of two birds flying together. Two birds suggested a breeding pair and gave hope that a nest could be found in the spring.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0007
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
Hill gets a call from a bee-keeper who lives about 25 miles from Auburn and claims to have seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in his yard. He also says he knows of two other locations that ivorybills ...
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Hill gets a call from a bee-keeper who lives about 25 miles from Auburn and claims to have seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in his yard. He also says he knows of two other locations that ivorybills frequent. Hill and Hicks investigate and find that the man is earnest but that the locations seem like improbable sites for ivorybills. They are left with the dilemma of not wishing to dispute the account of an honest man, but not believing that he actually saw an ivorybill. Hill is aware that other birders and ornithologists would view his own claims of ivorybills in the same way.Less
Hill gets a call from a bee-keeper who lives about 25 miles from Auburn and claims to have seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in his yard. He also says he knows of two other locations that ivorybills frequent. Hill and Hicks investigate and find that the man is earnest but that the locations seem like improbable sites for ivorybills. They are left with the dilemma of not wishing to dispute the account of an honest man, but not believing that he actually saw an ivorybill. Hill is aware that other birders and ornithologists would view his own claims of ivorybills in the same way.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
Winter of 2006 is the focused search period and this chapter describes how the search is to be conducted and the initial discoveries in the December 2005. Mennill's job will be to build automated ...
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Winter of 2006 is the focused search period and this chapter describes how the search is to be conducted and the initial discoveries in the December 2005. Mennill's job will be to build automated sound recording stations, and his student Swiston will live on site to run the stations. Rolek will live on site and try to get a photo or video of an ivorybill by watching cavities and looking for the birds. Hill will come down two weekends every month to search, and Hicks will search during breaks from college.Less
Winter of 2006 is the focused search period and this chapter describes how the search is to be conducted and the initial discoveries in the December 2005. Mennill's job will be to build automated sound recording stations, and his student Swiston will live on site to run the stations. Rolek will live on site and try to get a photo or video of an ivorybill by watching cavities and looking for the birds. Hill will come down two weekends every month to search, and Hicks will search during breaks from college.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0011
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
This chapter takes up the narrative of the search, covering activities in January. Rolek and Swiston are living in tents in the swamp, and Hill is coming down every other week to pick up sound ...
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This chapter takes up the narrative of the search, covering activities in January. Rolek and Swiston are living in tents in the swamp, and Hill is coming down every other week to pick up sound recordings. Rolek is regularly hearing and occasionally seeing ivorybills, and Hill has his first clear sighting in January when a bird flies in front of him. Rolek has his kayak stolen from a landing prompting an emergency run to a sporting goods store 100 miles away.Less
This chapter takes up the narrative of the search, covering activities in January. Rolek and Swiston are living in tents in the swamp, and Hill is coming down every other week to pick up sound recordings. Rolek is regularly hearing and occasionally seeing ivorybills, and Hill has his first clear sighting in January when a bird flies in front of him. Rolek has his kayak stolen from a landing prompting an emergency run to a sporting goods store 100 miles away.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0012
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
By February, the search crew was frustrated by their failure to photograph an ivorybill despite repeated encounters with the birds. The searchers were also concerned because they had not heard the ...
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By February, the search crew was frustrated by their failure to photograph an ivorybill despite repeated encounters with the birds. The searchers were also concerned because they had not heard the distinctive “kent” call of the birds in January. A week into February, however, everyone on the search team started hearing kent calls in the forest. By the end of March, definitive evidence stills remains elusive.Less
By February, the search crew was frustrated by their failure to photograph an ivorybill despite repeated encounters with the birds. The searchers were also concerned because they had not heard the distinctive “kent” call of the birds in January. A week into February, however, everyone on the search team started hearing kent calls in the forest. By the end of March, definitive evidence stills remains elusive.
Geoffrey E. Hill
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195323467
- eISBN:
- 9780199773855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323467.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
Hill contacts Chuck Hunter of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the discovery of ivorybills in the forests along the Choctawhatchee River. Hunter was impressed by the number of sound ...
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Hill contacts Chuck Hunter of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the discovery of ivorybills in the forests along the Choctawhatchee River. Hunter was impressed by the number of sound recordings and the details observed in some of the sightings. At the end of April, the searchers packed up the swamp camp and Rolek and Swiston moved back to civilization.Less
Hill contacts Chuck Hunter of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the discovery of ivorybills in the forests along the Choctawhatchee River. Hunter was impressed by the number of sound recordings and the details observed in some of the sightings. At the end of April, the searchers packed up the swamp camp and Rolek and Swiston moved back to civilization.
Carolyn M. King and Roger A. Powell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195322712
- eISBN:
- 9780199894239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195322712.003.0002
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter introduces readers to the most important features of the weasels: their long, thin body, short legs, and short fur — the consequences of their specialized lifestyle as hunters of small ...
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This chapter introduces readers to the most important features of the weasels: their long, thin body, short legs, and short fur — the consequences of their specialized lifestyle as hunters of small mammals in tight spaces. All aspects of their lives and behaviour are subservient to their need to be small enough to follow mice and voles into their nests, and yet still strong enough to make successful kills there. As such, their skulls are elongated, their ears flat to the head, and their necks long enough to let them carry a dead vole without tripping over it. They can out-compete larger predators in exploiting small rodents, but usually come off worst in any confrontation. They are disproportionately strong for their size, but the long, thin weasel body-shape makes high demands on their metabolism. Thick fur would prevent access to rodent tunnels, so they are vulnerable to energy loss in cool climates.Less
This chapter introduces readers to the most important features of the weasels: their long, thin body, short legs, and short fur — the consequences of their specialized lifestyle as hunters of small mammals in tight spaces. All aspects of their lives and behaviour are subservient to their need to be small enough to follow mice and voles into their nests, and yet still strong enough to make successful kills there. As such, their skulls are elongated, their ears flat to the head, and their necks long enough to let them carry a dead vole without tripping over it. They can out-compete larger predators in exploiting small rodents, but usually come off worst in any confrontation. They are disproportionately strong for their size, but the long, thin weasel body-shape makes high demands on their metabolism. Thick fur would prevent access to rodent tunnels, so they are vulnerable to energy loss in cool climates.
Terence Irwin
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195086454
- eISBN:
- 9780199833306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195086457.003.0016
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This chapter endeavours to demonstrate the relevance of the epistemological and metaphysical doctrines of books V, VI, and VII for Plato’s ethics. Firstly, the role played by the analysis of the ...
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This chapter endeavours to demonstrate the relevance of the epistemological and metaphysical doctrines of books V, VI, and VII for Plato’s ethics. Firstly, the role played by the analysis of the sight-lovers theory and how it relates with the other aspects of this books is investigated. Secondly, the relevance of the doctrine of the Good as the supreme form and its analogy with the sun is evaluated. Thirdly, how the line and the cave fit with Plato’s discussion and the role they play is examined.Less
This chapter endeavours to demonstrate the relevance of the epistemological and metaphysical doctrines of books V, VI, and VII for Plato’s ethics. Firstly, the role played by the analysis of the sight-lovers theory and how it relates with the other aspects of this books is investigated. Secondly, the relevance of the doctrine of the Good as the supreme form and its analogy with the sun is evaluated. Thirdly, how the line and the cave fit with Plato’s discussion and the role they play is examined.
Terrence L. Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195383980
- eISBN:
- 9780199897469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383980.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religion
Chapter Three defines freedom within the moral and political imaginations of Du Bois and Frederick Douglass. Freedom here is not necessarily tied to the availability of state-supported rights, but is ...
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Chapter Three defines freedom within the moral and political imaginations of Du Bois and Frederick Douglass. Freedom here is not necessarily tied to the availability of state-supported rights, but is based on the moral and political agency one exercises, which emerges with self-consciousness.Less
Chapter Three defines freedom within the moral and political imaginations of Du Bois and Frederick Douglass. Freedom here is not necessarily tied to the availability of state-supported rights, but is based on the moral and political agency one exercises, which emerges with self-consciousness.
