Disciplinary nature of astrobiology and astrobioethic’s epistemic foundations

Received: 04 May 2021, Revised: 09 May 2021, Accepted: 11 Dec 2021, Available online: 22 Dec 2021, Version of Record: 22 Dec 2021

Octavio A. Chon-Torres*
Affiliation:
Programa de Estudios Generales, Universidad de Lima, Javier Prado Este Cuadra 46 S/N, Distrito de Lima 15023, Lima 33, Lima, Peru
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Author for correspondence: Octavio A. Chon-Torres, E-mail: ochon@ulima.edu.pe

Abstract


Astrobioethics is an emerging discipline that studies, evaluates and analyses the moral, legal and social issues of the search for life in the Universe. As a new field of study, it requires an epistemological foundation to be able to be recognized as an academic discipline. In order to achieve this, it is important to understand the disciplinary nature of astrobiology as a transdisciplinary form of research, above the multi and interdisciplinary levels, although this does not necessarily mean discarding them. In addition, the questions and topics of each subdivision of astrobioethics studies are specified and explained in this paper.

 
Keywords: Astro, biology, astrobioe, thicstrans, disciplinarity



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