Exophilosophy: The Philosophical Implications of Alien Life

Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction • Richard Playford
Part I: Identity and Identification
	1 Is Life Observable? • Thomas Metcalf and Chelsea Haramia
	2 How to Think about UFOs • Robert CB Miller
Part II: Ethics and Values
	3 We Come in Peace: Our Metaphysical Obligations to Aliens • Richard Playford
	4 Hegelian Aliens: A Call for Cosmic Completion • Lewis Howeth
	5 Music of the Spheres: Could Aliens Understand Music? • Gregory Stacey
Part III: Communication
	6 Alien Words: Some Difficulties with Pre-Dysonian SETI • Robert CB Miller
	7 If an Alien Could Talk, Could We Understand It? • David Ellis
Part IV: Religion
	8 Dharmic Perspectives on Exophilosophy: The Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions on the Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life • Jeffery D. Long
	9 Abrahamic Perspectives on Exophilosophy: The Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions on the Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life • Richard Playford
	10 If Not God, Then...Aliens? The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis and Popular Atheism • Stephen Bullivant
Acknowledgements
Index