Philosophers consider SETI

On 28 December

1971

, Lewis White Beck (President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association) calls for philosophers to consider the problems arising from exobiological studies in a presidential address delivered before the sixty-eighth Annual Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York City.

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead focused on providing tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables of references to discussion in books can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

Book References

Complete text of address published in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-18 (in Part 1) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1985	Raup, David M in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31, 35-37 (in Part 2) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.	4
1985	Regis, Edward in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in the introduction to Part 1) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.	1
1985	Ruse, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Part 2) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.	1

Other Material

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