Vakoch, Douglas A.
Extraterrestrial Altruism
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)
- Vakoch, Douglas A.
- 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