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9781444330229

Dating - Philosophy for Everyone Flirting With Big Ideas

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444330229

  • ISBN10:

    1444330225

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-01-10
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

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 21 st 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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Flirting with Big Ideas: An Introduction to Dating - Philosophy for Everyone
Getting Started: From Flirting to Dating
The Philosophy of Flirting
Good Girls Don't, but Boys Don't Either: Toward a Conservative Position on Male Flirting
Love for Sale: Dating as a Calculated Exchange
The Dating Elevator: Pushing the Right Buttons and Moving from Floor to Floor
No-No's: Dating Taboos
"Crazy in Love": The Nature of Romantic Love
I'm Dating My Sister, and Other Taboos
Just Pushy Enough
Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Gold Diggers, and "Rules Girls"
Rolling Right Along: Dating Like a Pro
Against Matchmaking
Hitting the Bars with Aristotle: Dating in a Time of Uncertainty
I've Never Been on a Date (yet Somehow I Got Married!)
Morality, Spontaneity, and the Art of Getting (Truly) Lucky on the First Date
Another World: Cyber-Rendezvous
Dating and Play in Virtual Worlds
How To Be Yourself in an Online World
From Date to Mate: "Natural" Selection?
Evolutionary Psychology and Seduction Strategies: Should Science Teach Men How to Attract Women?
Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the Game
Why Less May Be More: Dating and the City
Notes on Contributors
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