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Vakoch, Douglas A.

Extraterrestrial Altruism

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Table of contents

Part I. Introduction

1. Cosmic Evolution, Reciprocity, and Interstellar Tit for Tat
Albert A. Harrison

2. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Friends, Foes, or Just Curious?
George Michael

3. Eliciting Altruism While Avoiding Xenophobia: A Thought Experiment
Jerome H. Barkow

4. Predator—Prey Models and Contact Considerations
Douglas Raybeck

5. Harmful ETI Hypothesis Denied: Visiting ETIs Likely Altruists
Harold A. Geller

6. Altruism Toward Non-Humans: Lessons for Interstellar Communication
Abhik Gupta

7. Caring Capacity and Cosmocultural Evolution: Potential Mechanisms for Advanced Altruism
Mark L. Lupisella

8. The Precautionary Principle: Egoism, Altruism, and the Active SETI Debate
Adam Korbitz

Part III. Inferring Altruism

9. The Accidental Altruist: Inferring Altruism from an Extraterrestrial Signal
Mark C. Langston

10. Interstellar Intersubjectivity: The Significance of Shared Cognition for Communication, Empathy, and Altruism in Space
David Dunér

11. Other Minds, Empathy, and Interstellar Communication
Tomislav Janović

12. Interspecies Altruism: Learning from Species on Earth
Denise L. Herzing

Part IV. Universal Ethics and Law

13. Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Altruism
Holmes Rolston

14. Kenotic Ethics and SETI: A Present-Day View
George F. R. Ellis

15. Altruism, Metalaw, and Celegistics: An Extraterrestrial Perspective on Universal Law-Making
Adam Korbitz

Part V. Representing Altruism

16. A Logic-Based Approach to Characterizing Altruism in Interstellar Messages
Alexander Ollongren

17. Equity and Democracy: Seeking the Common Good as a Common Ground for Interstellar Communication
Yvan Dutil

18. Patterns of Extraterrestrial Culture
William Sims Bainbridge

19. Evolutionary Perspectives on Interstellar Communication: Images of Altruism
Alfred Kracher

Keywords: Physics, Astrobiology, Ethics, Planetology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Communication Studies

Author(s)
Publisher
Springer
Publication year
2014
Language
en
Edition
2014
Series
The Frontiers Collection
Page amount
15 pages
Category
Natural Sciences
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9783642377501

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