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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Meditations on Murder, or What is so Philosophical about Serial Killers? | |
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| I Think Therefore I Kill: The Philosophical Musings of Serial Killers | |
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| Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of All: A Philosophical Gaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer | |
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| A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Fanus | |
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| The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers | |
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| Can You Blame Them? Ethics, Evil, and Serial Killing | |
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| Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A Historical Survey with Interviews | |
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| Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What They Do? | |
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| Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever Be Good? | |
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| Dangerous Infatuations: The Public Fascination with Serial Killers | |
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| The Allure of the Serial Killer | |
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| Dexter's Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero | |
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| A Eulogy for Emotion: The Lack of Empathy and the Urge to Kill | |
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| Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer | |
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| It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language of Psychopathy | |
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| Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers? | |
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| Creepy Cognition: Talking and Thinking about Serial Killers | |
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| The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed | |
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| Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language of Serial Murder | |
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| An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about the Armed and Dangerous | |
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| Psycho-ology: Killer Mindsets and Meditations on Murder | |
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| Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader | |
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| The Thread of Death, or the Compulsion to Kill | |
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| A Solemn Afterword: A Message from the Victim's Network | |
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| A Timeline of Serial Killers | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |