Book ID: CBB568700281

Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (2021)

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This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation. Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and humanities converge. Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary book that presents different perspectives and points of view by its contributing specialists. Epistemological, moral and political issues arising from astrobiology, convey the complexity of challenges posed by the search for life elsewhere in the universe. We ask: if a convoy of colonists from Earth make the trip to Mars, should their genomes be edited to adapt to the Red Planet’s environment? If scientists discover a biosphere with microbial life within our solar system, will it possess intrinsic value or merely utilitarian value? If astronomers discover an intelligent civilization on an exoplanet elsewhere in the Milky Way, what would be humanity’s moral responsibility: to protect Earth from an existential threat? To treat other intelligences with dignity? To exploit through interstellar commerce? To conquer? This book will attract readers from a wide range of interests including astronomers, astrobiologists, chemists, biologists, space engineers, ethicists, theologians and philosophers.

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Review Steven J. Dick (2022) Review of "Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (pp. 584-587). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Octavio A. Chon Torres
Kolb, Vera M.
Saulnier, Katie Michelle
Joly, Yann
Suporas, Charles
Wade Roush
Concepts
Space research and exploration
Discovery in science
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Discipline formation
Science and ethics
Extraterrestrial life; exobiology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Modern
20th century, late
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
United States
France
Europe
China
Soviet Union
Institutions
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (Study group: U.S.)
Universität Wien
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