Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing by Allhoff, Fritz

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405199636)

Vendor: Fritz Allhoff
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Format: Paperback
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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing by Allhoff, Fritz

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing

$23.95
Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing by Allhoff, Fritz

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing

$23.95
Format: Paperback
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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death.
  • Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers
  • Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers such as Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers such as Dexter and Hannibal Lecter
  • Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings of the Zodiac Killer
  • Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy's victims submitted by the organization Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
  • Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crime writers and police officers


Author: Fritz Allhoff
ISBN-10: 1405199636
ISBN-13: 9781405199636
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Fritz Allhoff
By Fritz Allhoff
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Editor
S. Waller is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research are philosophy 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 the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University'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).

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