Should We Call E.T.? An Ethical-Political Analysis of METI
Is it possible to mount a compelling ethical argument for METI? As we have argued elsewhere, conventional ethical theories are highly anthropocentric, making them difficult to apply to unknown alien intelligences, whose characteristics, needs, and concerns may differ radically from our own. In the a...
| Published in: | Theology and science |
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| Subtitles: | To Mars, the Milky Way and beyond: science, theology and ethics look at space exploration |
| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2019]
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Theology and science
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCD Political ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
| Further subjects: | B
Cosmopolitanism
B International Law B Precautionary Principle B METI B space ethics B space policy B active SETI |
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| Summary: | Is it possible to mount a compelling ethical argument for METI? As we have argued elsewhere, conventional ethical theories are highly anthropocentric, making them difficult to apply to unknown alien intelligences, whose characteristics, needs, and concerns may differ radically from our own. In the absence of ethically relevant information about ETIs we contend that it isn't possible to provide a strong conventional ethical argument for METI. Drawing upon the ancient, less widely known, ethical-political tradition of cosmopolitanism, however, we show how proponents of METI could provide an ethical argument for trying to contact ETIs under the right procedural conditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1632551 |