Society, Worldview and Outreach

Publication Type:

chapter

Date Issued:

2018

Authors:

Klara Capova , Lewis Dartnell , David Dunér , Anders Melin , Petar Mitrikeski

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

eng

Page:

19-24

DOI:

10.1007/978-3-319-96265-8_4

ISBN:

978-3-319-96265-8

As well as impinging upon issues of law and governance, astrobiology is also bound up with questions concerning who we are and where we come from, worldview questions of a more existential and philosophical sort. The questions that it seeks to tackle have, for centuries, been central to the humanities and to social science disciplines.