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Philosophical Approaches to DemonologyBenjamin W. McCraw, Robert Arp, 2017&#160;In contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving ideas and topics in demonology. The contributors to the volume approach the subject from the perspective of the broadest areas of Western philosophy, namely metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and moral philosophy. The collection also features a plurality of religious, cultural, and theological views on the nature of demons from both Eastern and Western thought, in addition to views that may diverge from these traditional roots. Philosophical Approaches to Demonology will be of interest to philosophers of religion, theologians, and scholars working in philosophical theology and demonology, as well as historians, cultural anthropologists, and sociologists interested more broadly in the concept of demons.(Text by the editors)&#160;Table of Contents&#160;Introduction - Robert Arp and Benjamin W. McCraw&#160;Part I. Demons in Christianity1 Augustine and Aquinas on the Demonic - Benjamin W. McCraw2 The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine - Seamus O’Neill3 Christian Demonology: A New Philosophical Perspective - Shandon L. Guthrie4 Women as "The Devil’s Gateway": A Feminist Critique of Christian Demonology - Jeff EwingPart II. Non-Christian Conceptions of Demons5 Socrates’ Demonic Sign (Daimonion Sēmeion) - Charlene Elsby6 The Ecological Demon: Silent Running and Interstellar - Brian Willems7 Demons of Seduction in Early Jewish Literature - Dawn Hutchinson8 The Jinn and the Shayatīn - Edward Moad9 Māra: Devāand Demon - Christopher Ketcham&#160;Part III. Demons and Epistemological Issues10 Justified Belief in the Existence of Demons is Impossible - David Kyle Johnson11 Esoteric Spirituality, Devils and Demons: Introducing the Gnostic Vision of Modernity - Kristina Sipova12 Re-Enchantment and Contemporary Demonology - Olli Petteri Pitkänen&#160;Part IV. Demons in Moral and Social Philosophy13 Whedon’s Demons: The Immorality of Moral Clarity and the Ethics of Moral Complexity - Talia Morag14 Modern Representations of Evil: Kant, Arendt, and the Devil in Goethe’s Faust and Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita - Elvira Basevich15 The Politics of Possession: Reading King James’s Daemonologie Through the Lens of Mimetic Realism - Duncan Reyburn