Overview

DATING PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE Speed dating, online dating, group blind dating, dating consultants… A booming dating industry is catering to an ever-increasing number of single adults in the twenty-first century, with the market for a mate now pulling in more than a billion dollars a year in the United States. So, how do we successfully attempt to navigate the dating minefield? Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a “mate,” Dating – Philosophy for Everyone includes a number of playful yet relevant essays for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to date again. It offers fascinating philosophical explorations of topics such as: The taboos of dating and how to play the dating game Should science teach men how to attract women? The problem of having too much choice The vicissitudes of dating and mating are explored from a number of perspectives, all of which will help demystify coupling in the twenty-first century for those young daters just entering the fray, and those veterans returning to the game.

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Author:   Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, The Nanoethics Group) ,  Kristie Miller (The University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Marlene Clark (City University of New York, USA) ,  Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781444330229

ISBN 10:   1444330225
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 September 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword viii Joshua Wolf Shenk Acknowledgments xi Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark Flirting with Big Ideas: An Introduction to Dating – Philosophy for Everyone 1 Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark Part I GETTING STARTED: From Flirting to Dating 11 1 The Philosophy of Flirting 13 Carrie S. Jenkins 2 Good Girls Don’t, but Boys Don’t Either: Toward a Conservative Position on Male Flirting 19 Emily Langan 3 Love for Sale: Dating as a Calculated Exchange 37 Jennifer A. Samp and Andrew I. Cohen 4 The Dating Elevator: Pushing the Right Buttons and Moving from Floor to Floor 49 John Rowan and Patricia Hallen Part II NO-NO’S: Dating Taboos 65 5 “Crazy in Love”: The Nature of Romantic Love 67 Mary Beth Yount 6 I’m Dating My Sister, and Other Taboos 76 Kristie Miller 7 Just Pushy Enough 90 Anne Barnhill 8 Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Gold Diggers, and “Rules Girls” 101 Kyla Reid and Tinashe Dune Part III ROLLING RIGHT ALONG: Dating Like a Pro 115 9 Against Matchmaking 117 Joshua S. Heter 10 Hitting the Bars with Aristotle: Dating in a Time of Uncertainty 126 Richard Paul Hamilton 11 I’ve Never Been on a Date (yet Somehow I Got Married!) 139 Andrew Terjesen 12 Morality, Spontaneity, and the Art of Getting (Truly) Lucky on the First Date 151 Christopher Brown and David W. Tien Part IV ANOTHER WORLD: Cyber-Rendezvous 165 13 Dating and Play in Virtual Worlds 167 Bo Brinkman 14 How To Be Yourself in an Online World 180 Dan Silber Part V FROM DATE TO MATE: “Natural” Selection? 195 15 Evolutionary Psychology and Seduction Strategies: Should Science Teach Men How to Attract Women? 197 Hichem Naar and Alberto Masala 16 Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It’s All in the Game 211 Mark Colyvan 17 Why Less May Be More: Dating and the City 221 Marlene Clark Notes on Contributors 233

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If you enjoy philosophy and are dating (or find the topic interesting), then by all means this is a book you would want to check out. (Littleredrails.com, January 2011)

If you enjoy philosophy and are dating (or find the topic interesting), then by all means this is a book you would want to check out. ( Littleredrails.com , January 2011)

Author Information

Editors KRISTIE MILLER is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. MARLENE CLARK is an Associate Professor of English at the City College Center for Worker Education, City University of New York. 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.

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