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This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers the plurality of worlds debate from antiquity through the nineteenth century, while section two co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Vakoch, Douglas A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics,
Temas:
Astrobiology.
Life sciences.
Science-History.
Ethnopsychology.
Religion.
Sociology.
Life Sciences.
History of Science.
Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The Early Extraterrestrial Life Debate
  • Chapter 1. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Antiquity to 1900
  • Chapter 2. Early Modern ET, Reflexive Telescopics, and Their Relevance Today
  • Chapter 3. Extraterrestrial Life as the Great Analogy, Two Centuries Ago and in Modern Astrobiology
  • Chapter 4. Hegel, Analogy, and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Chapter 5. The Relationship Between the Origins of Life on Earth and the Possibility of Life on Other Planets: A Nineteenth-century Perspective
  • Chapter 6. Pioneering Concepts of Planetary Habitability
  • Part II. The Modern Extraterrestrial Life Debate
  • Chapter 7. The Twentieth Century History of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Major Themes and Lessons Learned
  • Chapter 8. The Creator of Astrobotany, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
  • Chapter 9. Life Beyond Earth and the Evolutionary Synthesis
  • Chapter 10. The First Thousand Exoplanets: Two Decades of Excitement and Discovery
  • Chapter 11. Extraterrestrial Life in the Microbial Age
  • Part III. Societal Impact of Discovering Extraterrestrial Life
  • Chapter 12. The Societal Impact of Extraterrestrial Life: The Relevance of History and the Social Sciences
  • Chapter 13. Cultural Resources and Cognitive Frames: Keys to an Anthropological Approach to Prediction
  • Chapter 14. The Detection of Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Ready?
  • Chapter 15. Impact of Extraterrestrial Life Discovery for Third World Societies: Anthropological and Public Health Considerations
  • Chapter 16. Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication
  • Chapter 17. Mainstream Media and Social Media Reactions to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
  • Chapter 18. Christianity's Response to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life: Insights from Science and Religion and the Sociology of Religion
  • Chapter 19. Would the Discovery of ETI Provoke a Religious Crisis?
  • Index.  .

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