Elisa Aaltola

Aaltola, 2015

Elisa Aaltola (born 1976) is a Finnish philosopher, specialised in animal and environmental philosophy.

She studied at the Institute for Ethics, Environment, and Public Policy at Lancaster University and submitted her doctoral thesis to the University of Turku on Animal Individuality: Moral and Cultural Categorisations. Her book Eläinten moraalinen arvo (Vastapaino 2004) is considered the first commercially published Finnish monograph dedicated solely to animal ethics.[1] She is also the author of Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). Aaltola is an adjunct professor at the University of Turku and a lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland.[2]

Books

References

  1. "Elisa Aaltola". Oxford Animal Ethics. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  2. "Tutkijat". University of Eastern Finland. Retrieved 15 July 2012.


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