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Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original
interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work:
epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is
radically different from our own. Going against the grain of recent
scholarship, and drawing on ancient interpretations of Plato,
Jessica Moss argues that Plato is not best understood as studying
what we now call knowledge and belief. Instead, Moss proposes that
the central players in his epistemology, episteme and doxa, are
each essentially to be understood as cognition of a certain kind of
object. Episteme is cognition of what Is - where this turns out to
mean that it is a deep grasp of ultimate reality. Doxa is cognition
of what seems - where this turns out to mean that it is
atheoretical thought that mistakes images for reality. The book
defends these characterizations by arguing that they explain
important features of Plato's epistemology. In particular, it shows
that they underlie and make sense of a view which was long
attributed to Plato but has recently been deemed "outrageous": that
there is no doxa of Forms, and no episteme of perceptibles.
Finally, Moss contends that Plato's epistemology is so different
from modern epistemology because it is motivated by his central
ethical and metaphysical views. As the Cave allegory illustrates,
he holds that the goal of life is to be in contact with genuine
Being, and that the greatest obstacle to this goal is our tendency
to rest content with appearances. Therefore, when Plato turns to
epistemological investigations, the distinction he finds most
salient is that between cognition of what Is and cognition of what
seems.
SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns is newly-revised
for SQL Server 2014, and is a book of recipes for SQL Server
Integration Services (SSIS). Design patterns in the book help to
solve common problems encountered when developing data integration
solutions. The patterns and solution examples in the book increase
your efficiency as an SSIS developer, because you do not have to
design and code from scratch with each new problem you face. The
book's team of expert authors take you through numerous design
patterns that you'll soon be using every day, providing the thought
process and technical details needed to support their solutions.
SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns goes beyond the
surface of the immediate problems to be solved, delving into why
particular problems should be solved in certain ways. You'll learn
more about SSIS as a result, and you'll learn by practical example.
Where appropriate, the book provides examples of alternative
patterns and discusses when and where they should be used.
Highlights of the book include sections on ETL Instrumentation,
SSIS Frameworks, Business Intelligence Markup Language, and
Dependency Services. Takes you through solutions to common data
integration challenges Provides examples involving Business
Intelligence Markup Language Teaches SSIS using practical examples
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns is a book of
recipes for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Design patterns
in the book show how to solve common problems encountered when
developing data integration solutions. Because you do not have to
build the code from scratch each time, using design patterns
improves your efficiency as an SSIS developer. In SSIS Design
Patterns, we take you through several of these snippets in detail,
providing the technical details of the resolution. SQL Server 2012
Integration Services Design Patterns does not focus on the problems
to be solved; instead, the book delves into why particular problems
should be solved in certain ways. You'll learn more about SSIS as a
result, and you'll learn by practical example. Where appropriate,
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns provides
examples of alternative patterns and discusses when and where they
should be used. Highlights of the book include sections on ETL
Instrumentation, SSIS Frameworks, and Dependency Services.* Takes
you through solutions to several common data integration challenges
* Demonstrates new features in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services
* Teaches SSIS using practical examples What you'll learn * Load
data from flat file formats * Explore patterns for executing SSIS
packages * Discover a pattern for loading XML data * Migrate SSIS
packages through your application lifecycle without editing
connections * Take advantage of SSIS 2012 Dependency Services *
Build an SSIS Framework to support your application needs Who this
book is for SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns is
for the data integration developer who is ready to take their SQL
Server Integration Services (SSIS) skills to a more efficient
level. It's for the developer interested in locating a
previously-tested solution quickly. SQL Server 2012 Integration
Services Design Patterns is a great book for ETL (extract,
transform, and load) specialists and those seeking practical uses
for new features in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services. It's an
excellent choice for business intelligence and data warehouse
developers.Table of Contents * Metadata Collection * Execution
Operations * Scripting * SQL Server Source Patterns * Data
Cleansing * DB2 Source * Flat File Source Patterns * Parallel Data
Warehouse * XML * Expression Language Patterns * Data Warehouse *
Logging * Slowly Changing Dimensions * Loading the Cloud *
Reporting * Parent-Child Patterns * BIML * Configuration *
Deployment * Estimating ETL Projects
In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman:
830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a
time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s into our
modern moment. This richly illustrated volume, which accompanies an
exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, offers both an intriguing
overview of the collection and, with it, a tour through the very
history of photography itself. There Was a Whole Collection Made
includes an extensive timeline on the medium's evolution that notes
important dates, exhibitions, and texts. Artists and scholars alike
contribute personal reflections on and interpretations of the
Guttmans' photographs, which include images by such artists as
William Henry Fox Talbot, Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Carrie
Mae Weems. A colorful introduction to a key visual resource, There
Was a Whole Collection Made crosses time periods and genres to
revel in the enduring power of the camera lens.
Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to
us-a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for
something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to
appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness
motivate desire and action? No sustained study of Aristotle has
addressed these questions, or even recognized them as worth asking.
Jessica Moss argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial
to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his
ethics, and the relation between them. Beginning from the parallels
Aristotle draws between appearances of things as good and ordinary
perceptual appearances such as those involved in optical illusion,
Moss argues that on Aristotle's view things appear good to us, just
as things appear round or small, in virtue of a psychological
capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual phenomena like dreams and
visualization: phantasia ('imagination'). Once we realize that the
appearances of goodness which play so major a role in Aristotle's
ethics are literal quasi-perceptual appearances, Moss suggests we
can use his detailed accounts of phantasia and its relation to
perception and thought to gain new insight into some of the most
debated areas of Aristotle's philosophy: his accounts of emotions,
akrasia, ethical habituation, character, deliberation, and desire.
In Aristotle on the Apparent Good, Moss presents a new-and
controversial-interpretation of Aristotle's moral psychology: one
which greatly restricts the role of reason in ethical matters, and
gives an absolutely central role to pleasure.
Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to
us--a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for
something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to
appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness
motivate desire and action? No sustained study of Aristotle has
addressed these questions, or even recognized them as worth asking.
Jessica Moss argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial
to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his
ethics, and the relation between them.
Beginning from the parallels Aristotle draws between appearances of
things as good and ordinary perceptual appearances such as those
involved in optical illusion, Moss argues that on Aristotle's view
things appear good to us, just as things appear round or small, in
virtue of a psychological capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual
phenomena like dreams and visualization: phantasia ("imagination").
Once we realize that the appearances of goodness which play so
major a role in Aristotle's ethics are literal quasi-perceptual
appearances, Moss suggests we can use his detailed accounts of
phantasia and its relation to perception and thought to gain new
insight into some of the most debated areas of Aristotle's
philosophy: his accounts of emotions, akrasia, ethical habituation,
character, deliberation, and desire. In Aristotle on the Apparent
Good, Moss presents a new--and controversial--interpretation of
Aristotle's moral psychology: one which greatly restricts the role
of reason in ethical matters, and gives an absolutely central role
to pleasure.
Founded in 1989, the influential Delhi-based artists' organization
Sahmat, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, has offered a platform
for artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors to create and
present works that promote artistic freedom and secular,
egalitarian values. A companion to an exhibition of the same name
at the Smart Museum of Art, "The Sahmat Collective" explores the
contemporary art scene in Delhi while meditating on the power of
art as a tool for social change. "The Sahmat Collective" documents
the history of the organization through a series of case studies,
each presenting new scholarship, vivid images, reprints of original
articles and essays, and interviews with the artists and organizers
of each project. Situating the collective within not only the
political sphere in India, but also contemporary art trends from
around the world, this beautifully illustrated volume offers both
critical essays on the art produced by Sahmat and texts on the
political, social, and artistic climate in India by Smart Museum
staff members, philosophers, musicians, members of Sahmat, art
historians, anthropologists, and artists.
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