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 preference—are future-oriented. They rest upon 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 we individually and collectively want and how to get it. Read history, philosophy, ecology, economics, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and more. Discuss how we and others are learning to apply science to questions of value. Study perceptual, cognitive, and social impediments to this process; strategies for overcoming these; personal, social, and environmental consequences of doing so. Apply what we're learning to evolve self and society.
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.
