Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone —— Being and Killing

----- 连环杀手：存在与杀戮

ISBN: 9781405199636 出版年：2011 页码：245 Fritz Allhoff S Waller Wiley

Foreword ( John M. Doris). Acknowledgments (S. Waller). Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What is so Philosophical about Serial Killers? (S. Waller and William E. Deal). PART I I THINK THEREFORE I KILL: The Philosophical Musings of Serial Killers. 1 Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of All: A Philosophical Gaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer (Andrew M. Winters). 2 A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus (David Schmid). 3 The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers (Mark Alfano). PART II CAN YOU BLAME THEM? ETHICS, EVIL, AND SERIAL KILLING. 4 Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A Historical Survey with Interviews (Amanda Howard). 5 Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What They Do? (Manuel Vargas). 6 Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever Be Good? (Matthew Brophy). PART III DANGEROUS INFATUATIONS: The Public Fascination with Serial Killers. 7 The Allure of the Serial Killer (Eric Dietrich and Tara Fox Hall). 8 Dexter's Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero (Susan Amper). PART IV A EULOGY FOR EMOTION: The Lack of Empathy and the Urge to Kill. 9 Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer (Elizabeth Schechter and Harold Schechter). 10 It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language of Psychopathy (Chris Keegan). 11 Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers? (Andrew Terjesen). PART V CREEPY COGNITION: Talking and Thinking about Serial Killers. 12 The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed (William E. Deal). 13 Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language of Serial Murder (Wendy M. Zirngibl). 14 An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about the Armed and Dangerous (S. Waller (with Diane Amarillas and Karen Kos)).. PART VI PSYCHO-OLOGY: Killer Mindsets and Meditations on Murder. 15 Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader (Richard M. Gray). 16 The Thread of Death, or the Compulsion to Kill (J. S. Piven). A Solemn Afterword: A Message from the Victim's Network (Mary Miller). A Timeline of Serial Killers (Amanda Howard). Notes on Contributors.