Dick, Steven J <br/><br/>
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth 

 - New York  Cambridge University Press  2015 
 - 356p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>Motivations and Approaches............7  Current approaches to finding life beyond earth, and what happens if we do.......9  The philosophy of Astrobiology....23  History, discovery, analogy.........38  A multidimensional impact model for the discovery of Extraterrestrial life.....55  Transcending anthropocentrism.......77  The landscape of life...............81  THe landscape of Intelligence...95  Universal biology...............113  Equating culture, civilization and moral development in Imaging extraterrestrial  Intelligence........127  Communicating with the order......143  Philosophical, Theological and moral impact..............155  Life, Intelligence, and the pursuit of value in cosmic evolution..........159  Klaatu barada Nikto or Do they really think like us....175  Alien minds......189  The moral subject of Astrobiology....207  Astrobiology and theolgy...222  Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?.........233  Practical considerations: How should society prepare for discovery- and non-discovery.......245  Is there anything new about astrobiology and society.........249  Preparing for the discovery of extraterrestrial life..........263  Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.......286  SETI in Non-western perspective.......299  The allure of alien life...........308  Internalizing null extraterrestrial signals........324 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107109988  2612 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>N30.1  / D550