Supernatural and Philosophy

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Codename: GhostPhacers 1 Part One Of Monsters and Morals 5 1 Are Monsters Members of the Moral Community? 7 Nathan Stout 2 Aristotle's Metaphysics of Monsters and Why We Love Supernatural 16 Galen A. Foresman and Francis Tobienne, Jr. 3 Hunters, Warriors, Monsters 26 Shannon B. Ford 4 Team Free Will: Something Worth Fighting For 37 Devon Fitzgerald Ralston and Carey F. Applegate Part Two Life, Liberty, and the Apocalypse 47 5 What the Hell Is Going On? 49 Galen A. Foresman 6 Try Hell, It's a Democracy and the Weather Is Warm 62 Dena Hurst 7 Hunting the American Dream: Why Marx Would Think It's a Terrible Life 74 Jillian L. Canode 8 Mothers, Lovers, and Other Monsters: The Women of Supernatural 83 Patricia Brace 9 Night of the Living Dead Demons and a Life Worth Living 95 John Edgar Browning Part Three Evil by Design 109 10 Dean Winchester and the Supernatural Problem of Evil 111 Daniel Haas 11 Angels and Atheists 125 Fredrick Curry 12 Oh God, You Devil 139 Danilo Chaib Part Four It's Supernatural 151 13 Naturally Supernatural 153 James Blackmon with Galen A. Foresman 14 Masculinity and Supernatural Love 169 Stacey Goguen 15 Naturalizing Supernatural 179 Joseph L. Graves, Jr. Contributors: Bona Fide, Card Carrying Wisdom Lovers and GhostPhacers 189 Index 195

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