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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Elisa Aaltola

    1. University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

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Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 1-4

  3. Animal Suffering: The Practice

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 5-48

  4. Knowing Suffering

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 49-67

  5. History of Caring

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 68-96

  6. Morality and Non-Human Suffering: Analytical Animal Ethics

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 97-145

  7. Morality and Animal Suffering: Continental Investigations

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 146-155

  8. Emotion, Empathy and Intersubjectivity

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 156-197

  9. Action against Suffering

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 198-205

  10. Concluding Words

    • Elisa Aaltola
    Pages 206-209

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 210-247
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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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  • University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

    Elisa Aaltola

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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