| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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The Frontiers Collection, 1612-3018 |
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Frontiers collection. 1612-3018
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| Contents |
Part I: Introduction -- Cosmic Evolution, Reciprocity, and Interstellar Tit for Tat / Albert A. Harrison -- Part II: The Evolution of Altruism: Is Transmitting Dangerous? -- Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Friends, Foes, or Just Curious? / George Michael -- Eliciting Altruism While Avoiding Xenophobia: A Thought Experiment / Jerome H. Barkow -- Predator--Prey Models and Contact Considerations / Douglas Raybeck -- Harmful ETI Hypothesis Denied: Visiting ETIs Likely Altruists / Harold A. Geller -- Altruism Toward Non-Humans: Lessons for Interstellar Communication / Abhik Gupta -- Caring Capacity and Cosmocultural Evolution: Potential Mechanisms for Advanced Altruism / Mark L. Lupisella -- The Precautionary Principle: Egoism, Altruism, and the Active SETI Debate / Adam Korbitz -- Part III: Inferring Altruism -- The Accidental Altruist: Inferring Altruism from an Extraterrestrial Signal / Mark C. Langston -- Interstellar Intersubjectivity: The Significance of Shared Cognition for Communication, Empathy, and Altruism in Space / David Dunér -- Other Minds, Empathy, and Interstellar Communication / Tomislav Janović -- Interspecies Altruism: Learning from Species on Earth / Denise L. Herzing -- Part IV: Universal Ethics and Law -- Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Altruism / Holmes Rolston III -- Kenotic Ethics and SETI: A Present-Day View / George F.R. Ellis -- Altruism, Metalaw, and Celegistics: An Extraterrestrial Perspective on Universal Law-Making / Adam Korbitz -- Part V: Representing Altruism -- A Logic-Based Approach to Characterizing Altruism in Interstellar Messages / Alexander Ollongren -- Equity and Democracy: Seeking the Common Good as a Common Ground for Interstellar Communication / Yvan Dutil -- Patterns of Extraterrestrial Culture / William Sims Bainbridge -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Interstellar Communication: Images of Altruism / Alfred Kracher |
| Summary |
Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly important in recent years as SETI scientists have begun contemplating transmissions from Earth to make contact. Should we expect altruism to evolve throughout the cosmos, or is this only wishful thinking? Would this make biological sense? Is it dangerous to send messages to other worlds, as Stephen Hawking has suggested? Would extraterrestrial societies be based on different ethical principles? Extraterrestrial Altruism explores these and related questions about the motivations of civilizations beyond Earth, providing new insights that are critical for SETI. Chapters are authored by leading scholars from diverse disciplines anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, cosmology, engineering, history of science, law, philosophy, psychology, public policy, and sociology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2013) |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- Philosophy
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Altruism
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Cosmology.
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Altruism
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cosmology.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Altruism
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Cosmology -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vakoch, Douglas A., editor
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| ISBN |
9783642377501 |
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3642377505 |
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3642377491 |
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9783642377495 |
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