Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing

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.