Description
Book SynopsisDATING
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 couplin
Trade Review
"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)
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
