Class Meetings

While valuescientists confront a number of challenges, some of which to date have proven intractable (e.g., finding a universally applicable biophysical metric for value), our most common and most limiting impediment to honing valuescience practice is that we identify self with ideas incompatible with a scientific approach to value. Shedding these is doubly difficult because they are in substantial part a result of intense and incessant indoctrination to which we've become so desensitized as to take both its process and its outcomes for granted, if we are aware of them at all. Learning together in an atmosphere of mutual support and trust we are better able to set aside long and closely held ideas and consider different ones. Teaching team and students in this course can create sangha, community of practice in which we share risks and rewards of consciously constructing world-view a more consilient, science-based world-view. If you've prepared thoughts and questions about a day's topics, you're better able to learn and to further others' learning. You are welcome to prepare with others. We aim to afford each student ample opportunity in class meetings to contribute to others' benefit and to benefit from others' contributions.