Valuescience - Shedding Illusion to Live and Die Well
From Valuescience
What do you want? How can you get it? How do you know?
- "Ideas about value—about want—are future-oriented and therefore entail prediction; science is the sole demonstrated means for making predictions better than we can make by chance; thus, science is how we more accurately discern and more fully realize value." ~ David Schrom, Valuescience
Course
Valuescience: Shedding Illusion to Live Better
- Stanford University PSYC 136A/236A (autumn); PSYC 136B/236B (spring)
- 3 units without lab; 4 units with lab; Mon, Wed 11am-12:15pm; 160-317
- More accurately discern what you want and how to get it. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics and psychology pertinent to an ongoing cultural revolution by which people around the world are evolving a consilient foundation for an increasing range of human behavior. Study perceptual, cognitive, and cultural impediments to valuescience; strategies for overcoming these; personal and social consequences of doing so. Practice applying what you're learning.
Topics
- For a more detailed syllabus with class format and weekly readings, click here.
Development of this Valuescience course is an educational endeavor of Magic, a Palo Alto based public service organization.
