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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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Chapter title
The Aesthetic Objection to Terraforming Mars
Chapter number 15
Book title
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Published by
Springer International Publishing, July 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39827-3_15
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-939825-9, 978-3-31-939827-3
Authors

Sean McMahon

Editors

James S.J. Schwartz, Tony Milligan

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 30%
Researcher 2 20%
Student > Master 2 20%
Other 1 10%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 20%
Environmental Science 1 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 10%
Other 2 20%
Unknown 1 10%