Episodic memory, the cotemporality problem, and common sense

Direct realists about episodic memory claim that a rememberer has direct contact with a past event. But how is it possible to be acquainted with an event that ceased to exist? That’s the so-called cotemporality problem. The standard solution, proposed by Sven Bernecker, is to distinguish between the occurrence of an event and the existence of an event: an event ceases to occur without ceasing to exist. That’s the eternalist solution for the cotemporality problem. Nevertheless, some philosophers of memory claim that the adoption of an eternalist metaphysics of time would be too high a metaphysical price to be paid to hold direct realist intuitions about memory. Although I agree with these critics, I will try to show two things. First, that this kind of “common sense argument” is far from decisive. Second, that Bernecker’s proposal remains the best solution to the cotemporality problem

Searching for Methodology: Feminist Relational Materialism and the Teacher-Student Writing Conference

Using feminist relational materialism as a theoretical map, this paper seeks to reimage traditional case study methodology through the use of diffractive methodology. Reading and writing data diffractively is to refuse to privilege teacher and student talk and to instead study how material-discursive practices intra-act as phenomenon. To do this, we developed question-sets based upon Barad’s (2007) work to interrupt our habits of thinking in regard to a teacher-student writing conference. These question sets provoke our thinking with data from fourth grade teacher-student writing conferences. We play with diffractive methodology highlighting one teacher-student writing conference as intra-activity. Experiencing the teacher-student writing conference again (and again) the question-sets diffract a response and a response diffracts the question-sets, calling us to a continuous becoming, an ethical consideration of how our research and teaching practices matter. We are left wondering if there is a methodology to search for or if methodology is an invitation to an ongoing performance, to join a dance of-the-world, in a constant making and re-making and wondering of what might be

Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition

Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness in skill acquisition and second language acquisition may be understood through Dreyfus’s skillful coping, based in Merleau-Ponty’s intentional arc and maximal grip. Such an approach to second language acquisition decentralizes rule-based representationalist understandings of the process, such as universal grammar, and instead sees language and communication as responsive, dynamic and dyadic

Implementing Pharmacy Informatics in College Curricula: The AACP Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning Special Interest Group

Many professional organizations have initiatives to increase the awareness and use of informatics in the practice of pharmacy. Within education we must respond to these initiatives and make technology integral to all aspects of the curriculum, inculcating in students the importance of technology in practice. This document proposes 5 central domains for organizing planning related to informatics and technology within pharmacy education. The document is intended to encourage discussion of informatics within pharmacy education and the implications of informatics in future pharmacy practice, and to guide colleges of pharmacy in identifying and analyzing informatics topics to be taught and methods of instruction to be used within the doctor of pharmacy curriculum

Near IR Nonlinear Optics of an Organic Supermolecule

Two-photon accessed excited state absorption is shown to be an important mechanism in the near-IR nonlinear response of an organic supermolecule. This mechanism also provides an enhanced nonlinear absorption in an optical waveguide configuration

Etude de la mortalité des chamelons au Sud du Maroc : enquête rétrospective

Une enquête rétrospective a été réalisée entre janvier et août 1999 dans les provinces d'Oued Eddahab, Laâyoune, Guelmim, Tata, Essaouira, Zagora, Ouarzazate, Errachidia et Figuig. Elle a concerné 252 troupeaux camelins, soit 15 p. 100 des effectifs recensés dans ces régions. La mortalité périnatale du chamelon reste une contrainte majeure au développement de l'élevage camelin avec en moyenne 20,2 p. 100 de la mortalité (16,4 p. 100 en 1996 et 22,9 p. 100 en 1997). L'âge de la mort se situait entre 0 et 6 mois dans plus de 80 p. 100 des cas. Les premières causes de mortalité citées par les éleveurs étaient la diarrhée (72 p. 100), puis, très loin derrière, l'insuffisance alimentaire (9 p. 100), la mortinatalité (6 p. 100) et les abcès (5 p. 100), avec de fortes variations selon les provinces. La typologie des élevages a permis de distinguer quatre classes selon le profil sanitaire et cinq classes selon les pratiques d'élevage. Il existait de fortes corrélations entre la mortalité des chamelons et certaines pathologies des dromadaires adultes, notamment le syndrome respiratoire, la variole, la gale-teigne et d'autres pathologies. La forte homogénéité des modes de conduite n'a pas permis de mettre en évidence des corrélations entre la mortalité et les pratiques d'élevage qui jouaient probablement un rôle important. (Résumé d'auteur

Do Educators Need a Second Life? Exploring possibilities for enriched technology-based distance learning

This paper reports outcomes of our first Action Research study involving implementing Second Life [SL] in a graduate distance course on exploring community online. Participant blog entries and transcripts of ‘in-world’ class sessions were analyzed to determine: how well the participants learned to be successful SL residents; whether observations and meeting discussions reflected themes of community and experiential learning; and how participants evaluated their experiences and the educational potential of SL. Results indicate that SL is a complex environment requiring much practice to develop competencies for navigating inworld. Once accomplished, however, participants reported that although SL did not replicate real life, they experienced personal and emotional connections with the communities and residents they engaged with. It was also agreed that SL has potential for a variety of educational applications. The affordance of SL to sustain community and actively engage participants – crucial elements for collaborative and experiential learning – warrants further investigation

Palliative Care Simulation: Nurturing Interprofessional Collegiality

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional collaboration is essential to ensure safe and effective patient-centred care. Health care students need to gain an understanding of the roles played by interprofessional team members to provide optimal care at the end-of-life. Interprofessional education and simulation are becoming important strategies in providing health care students with opportunities to learn interprofessionally. However, there is limited evidence in the literature on interprofessional simulation, and more specifically on interprofessional end-of-life care simulation. The aim of this research project was to provide students from four health care disciplines from the School of Health at a rural Australian university with an opportunity to experience simulated interprofessional end-of-life care. This paper will discuss the qualitative results obtained from student evaluations following an interprofessional workshop. METHODS Fifteen undergraduate students from nursing, social work, medicine and pharmacy volunteered to attend an experiential workshop on palliative care. The central approach to learning during the workshop was a simulation scenario. Following the 15-minute simulation scenario, a debriefing session was used to understand the student’s experiences. Participants also completed a short evaluation survey that included both qualitative and quantitative responses. RESULTS Several themes emerged from this study; the most dominant theme was recognition by participants of the importance of supportive and respectful interprofessional teamwork in palliative care. CONCLUSION Palliative care simulation provides one strategy to provide insight into palliative care in critical care using an interprofessional approach

A Family-Friendly Study Room for Student-Parents and Their Children at Portland State University Library

The article focuses on the history and use of the Family Study Room at Portland State University Library

Socrates and St. Paul: Can Christian Apologetics be Public Philosophy?

Can popular Christian apologetics be public philosophy? This paper argues that it can be partly because the criteria for what counts as public philosophy are so vague but also partly because popular Christian apologetics parallels much that counts as public philosophy both in terms of its historical roots in Socrates but also how public philosophy is practiced now. In particular, there are parallels on the role of amateurs vs. professionals, the sorts of topics, the quality of the discussions, and the passion vs. the neutrality of its practitioners