Category Archives: online module notes

Intro to Philosophy – Week 7 – Time Travel

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Beth

this module focused on the paradoxes of time travel and some ways to defend the logical possibility of backwards time travel (mostly from a David Lewis paper) time travel involves: external time = “time as it is registered by the world … Continue reading →

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Intro to Philosophy – Week 3 – Philosophy of the Mind

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Beth

Cartesian dualism: the body is made of material stuff (i.e., stuff that has “extension” (i.e., takes up space)) and the mind is made of immaterial stuff (i.e., does not have extension) Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia was a student of Decartes … Continue reading →

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Intro to Philosophy – Week 2 – Epistemology

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Beth

Epistemology studying and theorising about our knowledge of the world. we have lots of information, but how do we tell good information from bad information? “propositional knowledge” = knowledge that a certain proposition is the case “proposition” = what is … Continue reading →

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Intro to Philosophy – Week 1 – What is Philosophy

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Beth

As I’ve been doing so much reading on things like theory, complexity science, and research methodology, I’ve been reading more and more papers with words like epistemology and ontology, and it’s prompted me to do a bit of a refresher … Continue reading →

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Informatics, Big Data, and Data Visualization

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Beth

Notes from module 10 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). Big Data = size of a database that is … Continue reading →

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Health Information Exchange

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Beth

Notes from module 9 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). Interoperability Interoperability: “the ability of two or more … Continue reading →

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Informatics and Ethics

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Beth

Notes from module 8 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). “knowledge is power” – Sir Francis Bacon, 1597 … Continue reading →

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Informatics, Gaming, and Simulation

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Beth

Notes from module 7 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). Gaming = “playing games developed to teach something or help solve … Continue reading →

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Workflow Processes

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Beth

Notes from module 4 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). [Note: I posted this on August 5, 2015, but then it … Continue reading →

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Informatics and Public Health