The Ethics of Space Exploration

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.