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Intro to Philosophy – Week 7 – Time Travel
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 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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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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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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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
Informatics, Big Data, and Data Visualization
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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Tagged Big Data, coursera, data visualization, eHealth, electronic health records, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, IT, learning healthcare system, notes, online module notes
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Health Information Exchange
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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Tagged coursera, eHealth, electronic health records, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, iNMDS, interoperability, IT, learning healthcare system, NMDS, NMMDS, notes, online module notes, standardization
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Informatics and Ethics
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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