A.C Grayling: Who Owns the Moon?
Thu
12
Thu 12 Sep 6:00 PM
Theatrette
General Admission
90 Mins
One small step for man; one giant leap for corporations?
Canberra Writers Festival is delighted to welcome back one of our favourite writers and thinkers - the philosopher A.C Grayling - to discuss his fascinating new work Who Owns The Moon?
As Elon Musk and his fellow multi-billionaires turn their eyes to the skies, the question of interplanetary ownership is alive and timely. Commercial activity in space may be welcomed for environmental reasons, but when profit and self-interest - whether individual, corporate or national - are at stake, how can we prevent space from becoming yet another area of human conflict?
Arguing that although no-one owns the moon, we are all responsible for it, Who Owns The Moon? In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space, puts forward a compelling argument for a bold new global consensus, one that defends the rights of everyone who lives on this planet.
Join A.C Grayling for this limited event in conversation with Professor Anna Moore, Director ANU Institute for Space, and Mission Specialist Dr Ben Bramble, ANU Institute of Space.
A.C. Grayling
A. C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSA FRSL is the Principal of Northeastern University London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian, the Times, and Prospect magazine. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the UK, US and Australia, and to BBC radios 4, 3 and the World Service, for which he did the annual 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series; and he has often appeared on television. He has twice been a judge on the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.
Canberra Writers Festival is delighted to welcome back one of our favourite writers and thinkers - the philosopher A.C Grayling - to discuss his fascinating new work Who Owns The Moon?
As Elon Musk and his fellow multi-billionaires turn their eyes to the skies, the question of interplanetary ownership is alive and timely. Commercial activity in space may be welcomed for environmental reasons, but when profit and self-interest - whether individual, corporate or national - are at stake, how can we prevent space from becoming yet another area of human conflict?
Arguing that although no-one owns the moon, we are all responsible for it, Who Owns The Moon? In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space, puts forward a compelling argument for a bold new global consensus, one that defends the rights of everyone who lives on this planet.
Join A.C Grayling for this limited event in conversation with Professor Anna Moore, Director ANU Institute for Space, and Mission Specialist Dr Ben Bramble, ANU Institute of Space.
A.C. Grayling
A. C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSA FRSL is the Principal of Northeastern University London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian, the Times, and Prospect magazine. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the UK, US and Australia, and to BBC radios 4, 3 and the World Service, for which he did the annual 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series; and he has often appeared on television. He has twice been a judge on the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.