Earth’s Abominations

DANIEL M. HAYBRON is Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Arizona in Tucson, United States. He recently completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. His dissertation addresses the nature and significance of happiness. His primary research interests are in ethics and the philosophy of psychology. His papers have appeared, or are forthcoming, in American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Happiness Studies, Metaphilosophy, Minds and Machines, The Monist, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

• ForewordONE Daniel M. HAYBRON: Introduction: Evil as a Philosophical ConcernTWO Brian SCHAEFER: The Disvalue of Pain and Pain-InflictionTHREE L. A. ZAIBERT: Intentionality and WickednessFOUR Todd CALDER: Toward a Theory of Evil Acts: A Critique of Laurence Thomas’s Theory of Evil ActsFIVE Daniel M. HAYBRON: Consistency of Character and the Character of EvilSIX Stephen REBER: Evolution, Altruism, and Intergroup AggressionSEVEN S. R. CHARLES: Plato’s DevilEIGHT Stephen MORRIS: “Clothed in Scarlet, Clothed with the Sun”: Thoughts on the Women of Apocalypse 12 and 17NINE Nafsika ATHANASSOULIS: Moral Luck and the Sources of EvilTEN Michael BAVIDGE: Responsibility, Punishment, and WickednessELEVEN Susan ROBBINS: Theodicy and Lament: Grappling with the Problem of Evil, Using Psalm 88About the ContributorsIndex