Dating - Philosophy for Everyone

EditorsKRISTIE 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.

"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)

• Foreword viiiJoshua Wolf ShenkAcknowledgments xiKristie Miller and Marlene ClarkFlirting with Big Ideas: An Introduction to Dating – Philosophy for Everyone 1Kristie Miller and Marlene ClarkPart I GETTING STARTED: From Flirting to Dating 111 The Philosophy of Flirting 13Carrie S. Jenkins2 Good Girls Don’t, but Boys Don’t Either: Toward a Conservative Position on Male Flirting 19Emily Langan3 Love for Sale: Dating as a Calculated Exchange 37Jennifer A. Samp and Andrew I. Cohen4 The Dating Elevator: Pushing the Right Buttons and Moving from Floor to Floor 49John Rowan and Patricia HallenPart II NO-NO’S: Dating Taboos 655 “Crazy in Love”: The Nature of Romantic Love 67Mary Beth Yount6 I’m Dating My Sister, and Other Taboos 76Kristie Miller7 Just Pushy Enough 90Anne Barnhill8 Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Gold Diggers, and “Rules Girls” 101Kyla Reid and Tinashe DunePart III ROLLING RIGHT ALONG: Dating Like a Pro 1159 Against Matchmaking 117Joshua S. Heter10 Hitting the Bars with Aristotle: Dating in a Time of Uncertainty 126Richard Paul Hamilton11 I’ve Never Been on a Date (yet Somehow I Got Married!) 139Andrew Terjesen12 Morality, Spontaneity, and the Art of Getting (Truly) Lucky on the First Date 151Christopher Brown and David W. TienPart IV ANOTHER WORLD: Cyber-Rendezvous 16513 Dating and Play in Virtual Worlds 167Bo Brinkman14 How To Be Yourself in an Online World 180Dan SilberPart V FROM DATE TO MATE: “Natural” Selection? 19515 Evolutionary Psychology and Seduction Strategies: Should Science Teach Men How to Attract Women? 197Hichem Naar and Alberto Masala16 Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It’s All in the Game 211Mark Colyvan17 Why Less May Be More: Dating and the City 221Marlene ClarkNotes on Contributors 233