Difference between revisions of "Valuescience - Shedding Illusion to Live and Die Well"
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| + | '''Valuescience: Shedding Illusion to Live Better''' | ||
| + | ''' Stanford University PSYC 136A/236A (autumn);''''''PSYC 136B/236B<span style="font-weight: bold;"> (</span>''''''spring)''' | ||
| + | ''' 3 units; Mon, Wed 11am-12:15pm; 160-326''' | ||
| − | + | <br> Apply scientific methods and principles to better discern and more fully realize value. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics and psychology pertinent to scientific and cultural revolutions with which people around the world are making valuescience a 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. | |
| − | Apply scientific methods and principles to better discern and more fully realize value. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics and psychology pertinent to scientific and cultural revolutions with which people around the world are | + | |
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Revision as of 09:28, 23 August 2009
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; Mon, Wed 11am-12:15pm; 160-326
Apply scientific methods and principles to better discern and more fully realize value. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics and psychology pertinent to scientific and cultural revolutions with which people around the world are making valuescience a 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.
Development of this Valuescience course is an educational endeavor of Magic, a Palo Alto based public service organization.
