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  title info:
    title: Social and conceptual issues in astrobiology
  name:
    name part: Smith, Kelly C. (Kelly Cox)
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mariscal, Carlos
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "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 research on the broader social and conceptual aspects of astrobiology is needed. Just what are our ethical obligations towards different sorts of alien life? Should we attempt to communicate with life beyond our planet? What is "life" in the most general sense? The current volume addresses these questions by looking at different perspectives from philosophers, historians, theologians, social scientists, and legal scholars. It sets a benchmark for future work in astrobiology, giving readers the groundwork from which to base the continuous scholarship coming from this ever-growing scientific field"--
  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.
  note: edited by Kelly C. Smith and Carlos Mariscal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Life (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Exobiologie
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Exobiologie
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Exobiologie
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Vie (Biologie)
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Disasters & Disaster Relief
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Life (Biology)
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: QH326 .S63 2020
  classification: 576.8/39
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    title info:
      title: Social and conceptual issues in astrobiology
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
    identifier: (DLC) 2019040690
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190917
    record change date: 20260319181323.7
    record identifier: in00005717646
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng