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Susan Finsen

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Susan Finsen is an American philosopher, currently professor emeritus of philosophy and former chair of the department at California State University, San Bernardino.[1][2] She specializes in moral philosophy, with a particular interest in animal rights, as well as philosophy of science and philosophy of biology. She is the co-author, with her husband Lawrence Finsen, of The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect (1994), and is the director of Californians for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.[3]

Finsen received her PhD in philosophy from Indiana University in 1982. Susan Finsen was formerly known as Susan K. Mills.[4]

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  1. ^ "Full Time Faculty". Philosophy. University of California San Bernardino. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  2. ^ "About the Editors and Contributors," in Marc Bekoff. Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood Publishing, 2009, p. 439.
  3. ^ "Philosophy" Archived 2007-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, California State University, San Bernardino, accessed 18 June 2012.
  4. ^ Sober, Elliott (1994). Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. p. xix. ISBN 0-262-69162-0.