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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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Front Matter
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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.
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Book Title: Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
Authors: Elisa Aaltola
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271822
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28391-6Published: 31 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32912-0Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27182-2Published: 31 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2634-6672
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 247
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Crime and Society, Sociology, general, Social Philosophy