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Intro to Philosophy – Week 6 – Are Scientific Theories True?
this module was not what I expected – I was expecting to learn about the philosophy of science (e.g., positivism, post-positivism, etc.), but instead the whole module was about the debate between scientific realism vs. scientific anti-realism – a debate … Continue reading
Intro to Philosophy – Week 5 – Should You Believe What You Hear?
This week we are talking about “whether and in what circumstances you can believe what other people tell you” will talk about the Enlightenment (1700-1800) – where reason, science, and liberal democracy were on the rise and religion and monarchy … Continue reading
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Tagged coursera, credulity, Hume, intellectual autonomy, Kant, naturalistic philosophy, philosophy, Reid, sapere aude, veracity
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Intro to Philosophy – Week 4 – Morality
the first lecture explored the “status of morality” – not “is this moral statement correct?” but rather “what is it that we are doing when we make moral statements? are moral statements objective facts? or are they relative to cultural/personal? … Continue reading
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Tagged coursera, cultural relativism, emotivism, morality, objectivism, philosophy, relativism, subjectivism
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Intro to Philosophy – Week 3 – Philosophy of the Mind
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
Intro to Philosophy – Week 2 – Epistemology
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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Tagged coursera, epistemology, knowledge, notes, philosophy, what is knowledge?
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Report on “Delivering the Benefits of Digital Health Care”
A report on “Delivering the benefits of digital health care” from Nuffield Trust in the UK recently came across my desk. It covers a bigger scope of technology than the project I’m working on (which is a project about transforming … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, information technology, notes
Tagged clinical informatics, digital healthcare, eHealth, electronic health records, evidence-informed decision making, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, IT, learning healthcare system, notes, quality improvement
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Implementation Science
Trying to avoid falling into yet another rabbit hole of reading (this time on “Implementation Science”1There’s another rabbit hole of “Program Science” awaiting me as well!), but here are notes from a couple of papers I’ve read trying to get … Continue reading
Intro to Philosophy – Week 1 – What is Philosophy
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
CES Webinar: Words of Evaluation
Title: Words of Evaluation: A terminological dictionary to clarify communication in evaluation practice Speakers: Richard Marceau, Francine Sylvain, Ghislan Arbour, Frank Hogg Offered by: Canadian Evaluation Society project at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) in Quebec City to create … Continue reading
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
While researching evaluating complex programs/complex systems, I came across an evaluation approach/method that I wasn’t familiar with: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). So I’ve done a bit of reading on this to see if it might be something I can use … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, qualitative comparative analysis
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