Social and conceptual issues in astrobiology

Social and conceptual issues in astrobiology / edited by Kelly C. Smith and Carlos Mariscal.

"This book focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring the humanistic issues of this multidisciplinary field. To be sure, there are myriad scientific questions that astrobiologists have only begun to address. However, this is not a purely scientific enterprise. More...

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Other Authors: Smith, Kelly C. (Kelly Cox), 1964- (Editor), Mariscal, Carlos (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Exobiology > Social aspects.
Exobiology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Exobiology > Philosophy.
Life (Biology) > Philosophy.
Exobiology > Philosophy
Life (Biology) > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • To the humanities and beyond : exploring the broader questions in astrobiology / Kelly Smith and Carlos Mariscal
  • Astrobiology and society : an overview / Steve Dick
  • Hell is other planets : extraterrestrial life in the western theological imagination / Derek Malone-France
  • Three lives and astrobiology / Lucas Mix
  • Dimensions of life definitions / Emily Parke
  • Meaning of the living state / Cole Mathis
  • Life as it could be / Luis Campos
  • Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? : the proper role of Sagan's dictum in astrobiology / Sean McMahon
  • Re-thinking conceptual intelligence and the astrobiology debate / Jason J. Howard
  • What are extremophiles? : a philosophical perspective / Carlos Mariscal and Tyler Brunet
  • Convergences in the ethics of space exploration / Brian Green
  • Ethics and extra-terrestrials : what obligations will we have to extra-terrestrial life? what obligations will it have to us? / Adam Potthast
  • METI or REGRETTI : ethics, risk and alien contact / Kelly C. Smith
  • Earth, life, space : the social construction of the biosphere and the expansion of the concept into outer space / Linda Billings
  • Myth-free space advocacy part IV : the myth of public support for astrobiology / Jim Schwartz
  • Unnatural selection or the best of both worlds? The legal and regulatory ramifications of the discovery of alien life / Christopher J. Newman.

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