This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

We can distinguish the evil person in two ways. One is to pick out some trait, or narrow cluster of traits, and argue that individuals are evil if they possess those traits to a sufficiently extreme degree. Call theories that characterize evil in this manner extremity views. The second method takes evil to consist in being vicious, not just in one respect, but thoroughly or consistently. Call t...

A 32-year-old woman presented with right-sided visual loss, hearing loss and diffuse headache. Examination confirmed CN-II, V1/2, and VIII neuropathies. MRI showed an infiltrative skull-base process involving the pachymeninges. Serology and histopathology confirmed idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis.

In this paper, we consider the problem of “evil twin” attacks in wireless local area networks (WLANs). An evil twin is essentially a phishing (rogue) Wi-Fi access point (AP) that looks like a legitimate one (with the same SSID name). It is set up by an adversary, who can eavesdrop on wireless communications of users’ Internet access. Existing evil twin detection solutions are mostly for wireles...

Pain and suffering are prima facie bad things. They are widespread. So the traditional argument against theism (the argument from evil) starts with them. Defendants of God’s goodness either have to explain why there is evil (i.e. offer a theodicy) or have at least to show that the argument from evil has no force against theism. Alvin Pantinga (1985) distinguishes between offering a (positive) t...

An integer is called evil if the number of ones in its binary expansion is even and odious if the number of ones in the binary expansion is odd. If we look at the integers between 0 and 15 we find that 0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15 are evil and that 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 are odious. Next we say that if two consecutive integers are evil then this is a pair of evil twins and that if two consecuti...

We have identified a novel gene, GR6, located Within the leukemia breakpoint region of 3q21, that is normally expressed in early fetal development but not in adult peripheral blood. CR6 is activated in the UCSD-AML1 cell line and in a leukemic sample, both of which carry a t(3;3)(q21;q26). In UCSD-AML1, we have also identified fusion tran scripts between the ecotropic viral insertion site I (EV...

Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. We introduce a scale designed to assess the belief in moral vitalism. High scorers on the scale endorse items such as “There are underlying forces of good and evil in this world.” After establishing the reliability and criterion validity of the scale (Studies 1, 2a, and 2b), we exami...

Discussions of the problem of evil presuppose and appeal to axiological and metaethical assumptions, but seldom pay adequate attention to those assumptions. I argue that certain theories of value are consistent with theistic answers to the argument from evil and that several other well-known theories of value, such as hedonism, are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with theism. Althoug...