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

"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." (<i>Littleredrails.com</i>, January 2011)<br /> <br />

<p><b>Editors</b></p> <p><b>KRISTIE MILLER</b> is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. <p><b>MARLENE CLARK</b> is an Associate Professor of English at the City College Center for Worker Education, City University of New York. <p><b>Series Editor</b> <p><b>FRITZ ALLHOFF</b> 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.

<p>DATING<BR> PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE <p>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? <p>Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a “mate,” <i>Dating – Philosophy for Everyone </i>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: <ul><li>The taboos of dating and how to play the dating game</li> <li>Should science teach men how to attract women?</li> <li>The problem of having too much choice</li></ul> <p>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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