Cultural Considerations WG webinar – What is the philosophy of space and why is it important? 

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Agenda

• Remo Rapetti: Welcome address
• Christopher Cokinos: Introduction
• Rebecca Lowe: The Philosophy of Space: Opportunity, Value, and Obligation

“How should property ownership work in space? How should human space experience be regulated? What obligations do humans have to non-human life in space? These three questions offer a route into conceiving of space as a special source of philosophical enquiry.” (Rebecca Lowe)

Rebecca Lowe is Philosophy Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, where she is also Director of Emerging Scholars. She is working on two books: ‘Freedom in Utopia’, and ‘Speaking Freely’. She writes a Substack called ‘the ends don’t justify the means’, and hosts a podcast called ‘Working Definition’. She often writes about space, and until recently served as Consulting Space Philosopher for a strategic space advisory firm. Her space publications include an article on the value of space activity for Economic Affairs, a follow-up piece for the American Philosophical Association blog on the value of private space activity, and a paper for the Adam Smith Institute on lunar property rights. Other highlights have included appearing on the Planetary Society’s podcast, and giving a keynote talk for the Flight Software Workshop at Johns Hopkins.