Overview
- Promotes a more robust and theoretically informed approach to the ethical dimension of discussions on space and society
- Allows academics across a range of disciplines an insight into current approaches toward how the work of ethics gets done
- Specifically contrasts competing perspectives
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Space and Society (SPSO)
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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 toinform debates about regulation, space law and protocols for microbial discovery as well as longer-range policy debates about funding.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Cultural and Historical Context of Space Ethics
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Humanism and Posthumanism
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Planetary Protection and Microbial Value
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Reviews
“This is a well-edited selection of essays covering a human side of space exploration that few of us may have spent much time considering. ... this volume is a worthwhile and enlightening read about a topic that could become very relevant in the next few decades.” (Barry Kent, The Observatory, Vol. 137 (1260), October, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tony Milligan is a lecturer in ethics with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. His research focuses upon the relations between the human and the non-human with an emerging specialism in the ethics of space. He is the author of Beyond Animal Rights (2010), Love (2011), Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law (2013), Nobody Owns the Moon: the Ethics of Space Exploitation (2015), Animal Ethics: The Basics (forthcoming, June 2015), the co-editor of a volume of essays on Love and its Objects (2014) and the guest editor of a recent (November 2014) special edition of the journal Space Policy on space ethics.
James S.J. Schwartz teaches philosophy at Wichita State University. His research interests include: philosophical and ethical issues related to space science, law, and policy; environmental ethics; philosophy of mathematics; and metaphysics. His publications have appeared in Space Policy, Environmental Ethics, Ethics & the Environment, Philosophia Mathematica, and in other volumes of Springer’s Space and Society series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics of Space Exploration
Editors: James S.J. Schwartz, Tony Milligan
Series Title: Space and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39827-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39825-9Published: 02 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81975-4Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39827-3Published: 25 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-3882
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Planetology, Ecology, Astrobiology