Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone Being and Killing
ISBN: 9781405199636 | 1405199636
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/11/2010
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They terrify us, and yet we love to read about them, to watch films about them, and some even fantasize about meeting them; this is the horror-pleasure reaction to serial killers whose gruesome acts hold a deep and disturbing lure.Serial Killers & Philosophy offers a philosophical examination of real and fictional serial killers, and investigates our profound intrigue with serial-murderers. Authors from various academic fields, as well as true crime writers and police officers delve into such questions as: What drives people to kill repeatedly?... MORE
| Foreword | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What is so Philosophical about Serial Killers? | p. 1 |
| I Think Therefore I Kill: The Philosophical Musings of Serial Killers | p. 15 |
| Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of All: A Philosophical Gaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer | p. 17 |
| A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Fanus | p. 29 | ... MORE
| The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers | p. 41 |
| Can You Blame Them? Ethics, Evil, and Serial Killing | p. 51 |
| Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A Historical Survey with Interviews | p. 53 |
| Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What They Do? | p. 66 |
| Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever Be Good? | p. 78 |
| Dangerous Infatuations: The Public Fascination with Serial Killers | p. 91 |
| The Allure of the Serial Killer | p. 93 |
| Dexter's Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero | p. 103 |
| A Eulogy for Emotion: The Lack of Empathy and the Urge to Kill | p. 115 |
| Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer | p. 117 |
| It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language of Psychopathy | p. 129 |
| Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers? | p. 141 |
| Creepy Cognition: Talking and Thinking about Serial Killers | p. 153 |
| The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed | p. 155 |
| Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language of Serial Murder | p. 166 |
| An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about the Armed and Dangerous | p. 178 |
| Psycho-ology: Killer Mindsets and Meditations on Murder | p. 189 |
| Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader | p. 191 |
| The Thread of Death, or the Compulsion to Kill | p. 206 |
| A Solemn Afterword: A Message from the Victim's Network | p. 218 |
| A Timeline of Serial Killers | p. 222 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 226 |
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S. Waller is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
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