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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture 2012th Edition
Author(s): E. Aaltola (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 31 July 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 258 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230283918
- ISBN-13: 9780230283916
Book Description
Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering?
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About the Author
ELISA AALTOLA is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Finland. She has been researching the theoretical ramifications behind, and practical implications of, the moral status of non-human animals for a number of years and has previously published two Finnish books on animal ethics.
