Difference between revisions of "Valuescience - Shedding Illusion to Live and Die Well"
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=== ''What do you want? How can you get it? How do you know?'' === | === ''What do you want? How can you get it? How do you know?'' === | ||
| − | :''"Ideas about value—about | + | :''"Ideas about value—about what we want and how to get it—are future-oriented. They rest upon prediction. Science, the sole demonstrated means for making predictions better than we can make by chance, is how we more accurately discern and more fully realize value."'' ~ David Schrom, ''[http://www.ecomagic.org/pubs/ValueScienceBklet.doc Valuescience]'' |
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:'''3 units without lab; 4 units with lab; Mon, Wed 11am-12:15pm; 160-317''' | :'''3 units without lab; 4 units with lab; Mon, Wed 11am-12:15pm; 160-317''' | ||
| − | : | + | :Reconsider what you individually, and humans collectively want and how to get it. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and more. Integrate lessons from all of these to shape a more accurate understanding of self and world. Study perceptual, cognitive, and social impediments to shaping an accurate world-view; strategies for overcoming these; and personal, social, and environmental consequences of doing so. Apply new understanding to consciously evolve self and to contribute to evolution of society so that we and others may live better. |
== Topics == | == Topics == | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 14 August 2010
What do you want? How can you get it? How do you know?
- "Ideas about value—about what we want and how to get it—are future-oriented. They rest upon prediction. Science, the sole demonstrated means for making predictions better than we can make by chance, 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
- Reconsider what you individually, and humans collectively want and how to get it. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and more. Integrate lessons from all of these to shape a more accurate understanding of self and world. Study perceptual, cognitive, and social impediments to shaping an accurate world-view; strategies for overcoming these; and personal, social, and environmental consequences of doing so. Apply new understanding to consciously evolve self and to contribute to evolution of society so that we and others may live better.
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.
