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Core Readings

• Schrom, David. "Evolving Science, Evolving Value." Link 1 page.

Schrom makes a succinct argument for valuescience. Please read to become able to recreate this argument.

• Schrom, David. (2008). Valuescience Booklet. [1] 24 pp.

Schrom outlines a basic valuescience argument and briefly touches upon applications to selected fields.

• Wikipedia. (2009). "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs." Link 8 pp.

Maslow proposes a schema, widely referenced for more than half a century, characterizing what he discovered to be universal human wants.

Interest Readings

• Walker, Marshall. (1963). "A Survival Technique." Nature of Scientific Thought. pp.14-20. Link

Walker demystifies science and shows both its ubiquity and its import.

• Graham, Paul. (2007). "How to Do Philosophy." Link

Y-combinator technology venture incubator founder Graham offers advice and encouragement to budding valuescientists and roots it in his own experience majoring in philosophy for most of his college career.

• Harris, Sam. (2007). "We Are Making Moral Progress." Link

Harris, a vehement advocate for a scientific approach to morality, makes his case that others are adopting valuescience to good effect.

• Wikipedia. "Fundamental Human Needs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_human_needs

Max Neff built on Maslow's work to create a more detailed list of universal human needs. He emphasized that these needs were few and finite in contrast to conventional economists who view them as infinite.