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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a "mate," this enlightening book offers playful philosophical explorations of the dating game for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to date again.* Offers amusing and enlightening philosophical insights into the dating game* Helps demystify coupling in the 21st century for those young daters just entering the fray, and those veterans returning to the game* Features contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, communications, theology, economics, health sciences, professional ethics, and engineering and applied sciences* Opens with Carrie Jenkins' ground-breaking essay, The Philosophy of Flirting, first published in The Philosopher's Magazine Zusammenfassung Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a "mate," this enlightening book offers playful philosophical explorations of the dating game for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to date again. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
