Tony Milligan
is a lecturer in ethics with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. His research focuses upon the relations between the human and the non-human with an emerging specialism in the ethics of space. He is the author of
Beyond Animal Rights
(2010),
Love
(2011),
Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law
(2013),
Nobody Owns the Moon: the Ethics of Space Exploitation
(2015),
Animal Ethics: The Basics
(forthcoming, June 2015), the co-editor of a volume of essays on
Love and its Objects
(2014) and the guest editor of a recent (November 2014) special edition of the journal
Space Policy
on space ethics.

James S.J. Schwartz


teaches philosophy at Wichita State University. His research interests include: philosophical and ethical issues related to space science, law, and policy; environmental ethics; philosophy of mathematics; and metaphysics. His publications have appeared in
Space Policy
,
Environmental Ethics
,
Ethics & the Environment
,
Philosophia Mathematica
, and in other volumes of Springer's
Space and Society
series.

Promotes a more robust and theoretically informed approach to the ethical dimension of discussions on space and society

Allows academics across a range of disciplines an insight into current approaches toward how the work of ethics gets done

Specifically contrasts competing perspectives

Forword,.- Volume Introduction,.- Section I .- Colonization,.- Section II - Normative Ethics,.- Section III - Humanism and Posthumanism,.- Section IV - Ethics and Law,.- Section V - The Debate on Microbial Value,.- Section VI - Planetary Protection,.- Glossary of Terms,.- Index.