Dating - Philosophy for Everyone: Flirting With Big Ideas - Couverture souple

Kristie Miller is a research fellow in philosophy at theUniversity of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Issues inTheoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition and Time (2006)as well as numerous journal articles on related topics.

Marlene Clark is an Associate Professor of English at theCity College Center for Worker Education, City University of NewYork. Her composition textbook, Juxtapositions: Ideas forCollege Writers (2005), is in its third edition.

Series Editor

Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the PhilosophyDepartment at Western Michigan University, as well as a SeniorResearch Fellow at the Australian National University sCentre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition toediting the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is thevolume 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).

Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact tothe selection of a mate, Dating Philosophyfor Everyone includes a number of playful yet relevantessays for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to dateagain. It offers fascinating philosophical explorations of topicssuch 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 numberof perspectives, all of which will help demystify coupling in thetwenty–first century for those young daters just entering the fray,and those veterans returning to the game.