The question "Are We Alone?" in different cultures
History and Philosophy of Physics
2009-12-27 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
A survey of the worldwide litterature reveals that the question "Are We Alone in the Universe?" has been formulated only in the western litterature. Here I try to understand why it is so. To investigate this problem it is first necessary to clarify what western culture means.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.4132,
title = {The question "Are We Alone?" in different cultures},
author = {Jean Schneider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4132},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
to appear in The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture: Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 260, 2009. D. Valls-Gabaud and A. Boksenberg, eds