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E-raamat: Dating - Philosophy for Everyone - Flirting with Big Ideas: Flirting With Big Ideas [Wiley Online]

Edited by (The University of Sydney, Australia), Edited by (City University of New York, USA), Foreword by , Series edited by (Western Michigan University, The Nanoethics Group)
  • Formaat: 256 pages
  • Sari: Philosophy for Everyone
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2010
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1444324543
  • ISBN-13: 9781444324549
  • Wiley Online
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  • Formaat: 256 pages
  • Sari: Philosophy for Everyone
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2010
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1444324543
  • ISBN-13: 9781444324549
Each book in this series takes a easy-to-understand philosophic look at a particular aspect of everyday life or pop culture. Original.

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.

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.

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. It offers amusing and enlightening philosophical insights into the dating game.

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
Foreword viii
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Acknowledgments xi
Kristie Miller
Marlene Clark
Flirting with Big Ideas: An Introduction to Dating - Philosophy for Everyone 1(10)
Kristie Miller
Marlene Clark
PART I Getting Started: From Flirting to Dating
11(54)
1 The Philosophy of Flirting
13(6)
Carrie S. Jenkins
2 Good Girls Don't, but Boys Don't Either: Toward a Conservative Position on Male Flirting
19(18)
Emily Langan
3 Love for Sale: Dating as a Calculated Exchange
37(12)
Jennifer A. Samp
Andrew I. Cohen
4 The Dating Elevator: Pushing the Right Buttons and Moving from Floor to Floor
49(16)
John Rowan
Patricia Hallen
PART II No-No's: Dating Taboos
65(50)
5 "Crazy in Love": The Nature of Romantic Love
67(9)
Mary Beth Yount
6 I'm Dating My Sister, and Other Taboos
76(14)
Kristie Miller
7 Just Pushy Enough
90(11)
Anne Barnhill
8 Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Gold Diggers, and "Rules Girls"
101(14)
Kyla Reid
Tinashe Dune
PART III Rolling Right Along: Dating Like a Pro
115(50)
9 Against Matchmaking
117(9)
Joshua S. Heter
10 Hitting the Bars with Aristotle: Dating in a Time of Uncertainty
126(13)
Richard Paul Hamilton
11 I've Never Been on a Date (yet Somehow I Got Married!)
139(12)
Andrew Terjesen
12 Morality, Spontaneity, and the Art of Getting (Truly) Lucky on the First Date
151(14)
Christopher Brown
David W. Tien
PART IV Another World: Cyber-Rendezvous
165(30)
13 Dating and Play in Virtual Worlds
167(13)
Bo Brinkman
14 How To Be Yourself in an Online World
180(15)
Dan Silber
PART V From Date to Mate: "Natural" Selection?
195(38)
15 Evolutionary Psychology and Seduction Strategies: Should Science Teach Men How to Attract Women?
197(14)
Hichem Naar
Alberto Masala
16 Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the Game
211(10)
Mark Colyvan
17 Why Less May Be More: Dating and the City
221(12)
Marlene Clark
Notes on Contributors 233
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 Universitys Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.