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Index
Cover
Contents
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What is so Philosophical about Serial Killers?
PART I I THINK THEREFORE I KILL: The Philosophical Musings of Serial Killers
Chapter 1: Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of All: A Philosophical Gaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer
Chapter 2: A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus
Chapter 3: The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers
PART II CAN YOU BLAME THEM? ETHICS, EVIL, AND SERIAL KILLING
Chapter 4: Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A Historical Survey with Interviews
Chapter 5: Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What They Do?
Chapter 6: Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever Be Good?
PART III DANGEROUS INFATUATIONS: The Public Fascination with Serial Killers
Chapter 7: The Allure of the Serial Killer
Chapter 8: Dexter’s Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero
PART IV A EULOGY FOR EMOTION: The Lack of Empathy and the Urge to Kill
Chapter 9: Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer
Chapter 10: It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language of Psychopathy
Chapter 11: Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers?
PART V CREEPY COGNITION: Talking and Thinking about Serial Killers
Chapter 12: The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed
Chapter 13: Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language of Serial Murder
Chapter 14: An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about the Armed and Dangerous
PART VI PSYCHO-OLOGY: Killer Mindsets and Meditations on Murder
Chapter 15: Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader
Chapter 16: The Thread of Death, or the Compulsion to Kill
A Solemn Afterword: A Message from the Victims Network
A Timeline of Serial Killers
Notes on Contributors
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