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Astrobiology and Society: Building an Interdisciplinary Research Community
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This paper reports recent efforts to gather experts from the humanities and social sciences along with astrobiologists to consider the cultural, societal, and psychological implications of astrobiology research and exploration. We began by convening a workshop to draft a research roadmap on astrobiology's societal implications and later formed a Focus Group on Astrobiology and Society under the auspices of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). Just as the Astrobiology Science Roadmap and various astrobiology science focus groups have helped researchers orient and understand their work across disciplinary contexts, our intent was to apply the same approach to examine areas beyond the physical and life sciences and expand interdisciplinary interaction and scholarly understanding. These efforts continue as an experiment in progress, with an open invitation to interested researchers—astrobiologists as well as scholars in the humanities and social sciences—to become involved in research, analysis, and proactive discussions concerning the potential impacts of astrobiology on society as well as the possible impacts of society on progress in astrobiology. Key Words: Astrobiology—Extraterrestrial life—Life detection. Astrobiology 12, 958–965.
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Astrobiology is inherently interdisciplinary.
“As such it is inherently interdisciplinary and cannot help but engender a worldview infused by cosmic and evolutionary perspectives.”
From Widening perspectives: the intellectual and social benefits of astrobiology (regardless of whether extraterrestrial life is discovered or not) (2018) · cites this paper as Race et al., 2012
Astrobiology is stimulating intellectual and philosophical activity outside the natural sciences.
“In addition to the (partial) re-unification of the sciences, the study of astrobiology is also stimulating much intellectual and philosophical activity outside the scope of the natural sciences”
From Widening perspectives: the intellectual and social benefits of astrobiology (regardless of whether extraterrestrial life is discovered or not) (2018) · cites this paper as Race et al, 2012
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“Intellectual benefits of the study of astrobiology As has often been noted previously (e.g. Connell et al. 2000; Race et al. 2012), the principal scientific and intellectual benefits of astrobiology arise from its inherently interdisciplinary nature.”
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- Authors
- Race, M., Denning, K., Bertka, C. M., Dick, S. J., Harrison, A. A., Impey, C., & Mancinelli, A. W. P.
- Affiliations
- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (US)
- York University (CA)
- Science and Society Resources
- Smithsonian Institution (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- NASA Ames Research Center–Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
- Corresponding author
- Race, Margaret
- Venue
- Astrobiology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-10
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 958-965
- ISSN
- 1531-1074 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-8070
- PMC
- PMC3484766
- OpenAlex
- W2089735682
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Astrobiology (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Secretário de Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Governo do Estado de Parana
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Space exploration and regulation
- Keywords
- interdisciplinary research community, humanities and social sciences, research roadmap
- MeSH terms
- Research, Societies, United States, Focus Groups, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Exobiology, Interdisciplinary Studies
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