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The Ethics of Space Exploration

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Scope and Content of Space Ethics
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    Chapter 2 Dreams and Nightmares of the High Frontier: The Response of Science Fiction to Gerard K. O’Neill’s The High Frontier
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    Chapter 3 Space Colonies and Their Critics
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    Chapter 4 Agonal Conflict and Space Exploration
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    Chapter 5 Prospects for Utopia in Space
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    Chapter 6 Cosmological Theories of Value: Relationalism and Connectedness as Foundations for Cosmic Creativity
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    Chapter 7 On the Methodology of Space Ethics
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    Chapter 8 The Ethics of Outer Space: A Consequentialist Perspective
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    Chapter 9 Space Ethics Without Foundations
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    Chapter 10 Why Space Migration Must Be Posthuman
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    Chapter 11 An Urgent Need to Explore Space
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    Chapter 12 The Ethical Status of Microbial Life on Earth and Elsewhere: In Defence of Intrinsic Value
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    Chapter 13 Kantian Foundations for a Cosmocentric Ethic
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    Chapter 14 The Curious Case of the Martian Microbes: Mariomania, Intrinsic Value and the Prime Directive
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    Chapter 15 The Aesthetic Objection to Terraforming Mars
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    Chapter 16 ‘The Way to Eden’: Environmental Legal and Ethical Values in Interplanetary Space Flight
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    Chapter 17 The Risks of Nuclear Powered Space Probes
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    Chapter 18 Shaking the Foundations of the Law: Some Legal Issues Posed by a Detection of Extra-Terrestrial Life
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    Chapter 19 Erratum to: Shaking the Foundations of the Law: Some Legal Issues Posed by a Detection of Extra-Terrestrial Life
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Title
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39827-3
ISBNs
978-3-31-939825-9, 978-3-31-939827-3
Editors

Tony Milligan, James Schwartz

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Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 23%
Student > Bachelor 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Researcher 3 12%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 3 12%
Social Sciences 3 12%
Arts and Humanities 2 8%
Computer Science 2 8%
Environmental Science 2 8%
Other 8 31%
Unknown 6 23%