Waller Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone

Being and Killing
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4140-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates ourprofound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential,ethical and political questions through an examination of real andfictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an explorationof grisly death.
* Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, andrelates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serialkillers
* Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers such asIan Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and theZodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers such as Dexterand Hannibal Lecter
* Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings ofthe Zodiac Killer
* Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy'svictims submitted by the organization Families and Friends ofMissing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
* Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crimewriters and police officers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waller, S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allhoff, Fritz

Doris, John M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (John M. Doris).
Acknowledgments (S. Waller).
Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What is soPhilosophical about Serial Killers? (S. Waller and WilliamE. Deal).
PART I I THINK THEREFORE I KILL: The Philosophical Musings ofSerial Killers.
1 Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of All: A PhilosophicalGaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer (Andrew M.Winters).
2 A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Bradyat the Gates of Janus (David Schmid).
3 The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trialsof Accused Serial Killers (Mark Alfano).
PART II CAN YOU BLAME THEM? ETHICS, EVIL, AND SERIALKILLING.
4 Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A HistoricalSurvey with Interviews (Amanda Howard).
5 Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthyfor What They Do? (Manuel Vargas).
6 Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever BeGood? (Matthew Brophy).
PART III DANGEROUS INFATUATIONS: The Public Fascination withSerial Killers.
7 The Allure of the Serial Killer (Eric Dietrich and Tara FoxHall).
8 Dexter's Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero(Susan Amper).
PART IV A EULOGY FOR EMOTION: The Lack of Empathy and theUrge to Kill.
9 Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the FemaleSerial Killer (Elizabeth Schechter and HaroldSchechter).
10 It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language ofPsychopathy (Chris Keegan).
11 Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers? (AndrewTerjesen).
PART V CREEPY COGNITION: Talking and Thinking about SerialKillers.
12 The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed (William E.Deal).
13 Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language ofSerial Murder (Wendy M. Zirngibl).
14 An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about theArmed and Dangerous (S. Waller (with Diane Amarillas andKaren Kos))..
PART VI PSYCHO-OLOGY: Killer Mindsets and Meditations onMurder.
15 Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and DennisRader (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.

Über Autor(innen)

Editor
S. Waller is an Associate Professor of Philosophy atMontana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research arephilosophy of neurology, philosophy of cognitive ethology(especially dolphins, wolves, and coyotes), and philosophy of mind,specifically the parts of the mind we disavow.
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in thePhilosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as aSenior Research Fellow at the Australian NationalUniversity's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series,Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles,including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007),Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley,2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).