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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James S.J. Schwartz , Tony MilliganPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 5.443kg ISBN: 9783319398259ISBN 10: 3319398253 Pages: 267 Publication Date: 02 August 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsForword,.- Volume Introduction,.- Section I .- Colonization,.- Section II – Normative Ethics,.- Section III – Humanism and Posthumanism,.- Section IV – Ethics and Law,.- Section V – The Debate on Microbial Value,.- Section VI – Planetary Protection,.- Glossary of Terms,.- Index.ReviewsThis 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) Author InformationTony 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |