Elisa Aaltola
Elisa Aaltola (* 1976 ) is a Finnish philosopher of critical animal ethics and activist of the animal liberation movement .
She studied at the Institute for Ethics, Environment, and Public Policy at the Lancaster University and was at the University of Turku on Animal Individuality: Moral and Cultural Categorisations doctorate . Her book Eläinten moraalinen arvo is considered to be one of the first overviews of Western animal ethics from an animal rights perspective in the Finnish language. She also edited the Finnish translation of Animal Liberation , to which she added two essays of her own on the situation of non-human animals in Finland. She wrote her master's thesis in Film and Television Studies on pictorial reproductions of cruelty to animals. She is currently doing research at Manchester Metropolitan University on animal ethics in casuistry and with Wittgenstein as well as on anthropological difference .
Works
- Eläinten moraalinen arvo . Vastapaino, 2004, ISBN 9789517681452 .
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| SURNAME | Aaltola, Elisa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish philosopher of critical animal ethics and activist of the animal liberation movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |