The Ethics of Space Exploration 1st Edition James S.J. Schwartz 331939827X 9783319398273

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• ISBN 10: 331939827X
• ISBN 13: 9783319398273
• Author: James S.J. Schwartz

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value (including the ultimate value of space-related activities) which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society. Although a recurring feature of discussions about space in the humanities, the treatment of value questions has tended to be patchy, of uneven quality and even, on occasion, idiosyncratic rather than drawing upon a close familiarity with state-of-the-art ethical theory. One of the volume’s aims is to promote a more robust and theoretically informed approach to the ethical dimension of discussions on space and society. While the contributions are written in a manner which is accessible across disciplines, the book still withstands scrutiny by those whose work is primarily on ethics. At the same time it allows academics across a range of disciplines an insight into current approaches toward how the work of ethics gets done. The issues of value raised could be used to inform debates about regulation, space law and protocols for microbial discovery as well as longer-range policy debates about funding.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction: The Scope and Content of Space Ethics

2 Dreams and Nightmares of the High Frontier: The Response of Science Fiction to Gerard K. O’Neill

3 Space Colonies and Their Critics

4 Agonal Conflict and Space Exploration

5 Prospects for Utopia in Space

6 Cosmological Theories of Value: Relationalism and Connectedness as Foundations for Cosmic Creativi

7 On the Methodology of Space Ethics

8 The Ethics of Outer Space: A Consequentialist Perspective

9 Space Ethics Without Foundations

10 Why Space Migration Must Be Posthuman

11 An Urgent Need to Explore Space

12 The Ethical Status of Microbial Life on Earth and Elsewhere: In Defence of Intrinsic Value

13 Kantian Foundations for a Cosmocentric Ethic

14 The Curious Case of the Martian Microbes: Mariomania, Intrinsic Value and the Prime Directive

15 The Aesthetic Objection to Terraforming Mars

16 ‘The Way to Eden’: Environmental Legal and Ethical Values in &!blank;Interplanetary Space Fli

17 The Risks of Nuclear Powered Space Probes

18 Shaking the Foundations of the Law: Some Legal Issues Posed by a Detection of Extra-Terrestrial L

19 Erratum to: Shaking the Foundations of the Law: Some Legal Issues Posed by a Detection of Extra-T

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