Dating - Philosophy for Everyone
Flirting With Big Ideas
Philosophy for Everyone
1. Edition September 2010
256 Pages, Softcover
General Reading
Short Description
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?; and 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 coupling in the 21st 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.
* 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
Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark
Foreword
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Flirting with Big Ideas: An Introduction to Dating - Philosophy for Everyone
Kristie Miller and Marlene Clark
Part I: Getting Started: From Flirting to Dating
Part II: No No's: Dating Taboos
Part III: Rolling Right Along: Dating Like a Pro
Part IV: Another World: Cyber-Rendezvous
Part V: From Date to Mate: "Natural" Selection?
Appendix A: Notes on Contributors
Kristie Miller is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition and Time (2006) as well as numerous journal articles on related topics.
Marlene Clark is an Associate Professor of English at the City College Center for Worker Education, City University of New York. Her composition textbook, Juxtapositions: Ideas for College Writers (2005), is in its third edition.
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. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
