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" Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone : "
edited by S. Waller
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BL
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664542
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| Title & Author
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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone : : being and killing /\ edited by S. Waller
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| Publication Statement
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Malden :: Wiley-Blackwell,, 2010
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Philosophy for everyone
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xii, 231 p. ;; 23 cm
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9781405199636 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1405199636 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: meditations on murder, or what is so philosophical about serial killers? / S. Waller and William E. Deal -- Man is the most dangerous animal of all : a philosophical gaze into the writings of the Zodiac Killer / Andrew M. Winters -- A philosophy of serial killing : Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the gates of Janus / David Schmid -- The situation of the jury : attribution bias in the trials of accused serial killers / Mark Alfano -- Serial killers as practical moral skeptics : a history with interviews / Amanda Howard -- Are psychopathic serial killers evil? Are they blameworthy for what they do? / Manuel Vargas -- Sympathy for the devil : can a serial killer ever be good? / Matthew Brophy -- The allure of the serial killer / Eric Dietrich and Tara Fox Hall -- Dexter's dark world : the serial killer as superhero / Susan Amper -- Killing with kindness : nature, nurture, and the female serial killer / Elizabeth Schecter and Harold Schecter -- It puts the lotion in the basket : the language of psychopathy / Chris Keegan -- Are serial killers cold-blooded killers? / Andrew Terjesen -- The serial killer was (cognitively) framed / William E. Deal -- Wolves and widows : naming, metaphor, and the language of serial murder / Wendy M. Zirngibl -- An arresting conversation : police philosophize about the armed and dangerous / S. Waller (with Diane Amarillas and Karen Kos) -- Psychopathy and will to power : Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader / Richard M. Gray -- The thread of death, or the compulsion to kill / J.S. Piven -- Afterword: a solemn afterword : a message from the victim's network / Mary Miller
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Serial murderers-- Psychology
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Psychology, Pathological
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| Dewey Classification
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364.152/32
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HV6515.S475 2010
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Waller, S
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Serial killers and philosophy
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