Ethics of Space Exploration

Tony 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.

• Forword,.- 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.

“This 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)