From Tinder to FarmersOnly, dating apps not only help us meet the love of our life, they also raise new philosophical questions! Does an endless stream of potential partners arrest our romantic agency? Is it morally wrong to care about looks? Why do these apps function like games--and has this gameplay forced our digital love lives into a functional flop? Join Frank and Megan as they discuss all these questions, as well as their own experiences, or lack thereof, in the world of online dating. ----------------------- Hosts' Websites: Megan J Fritts (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/meganjfritts/home?authuser=0] Frank J. Cabrera - Research (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/frank-j-cabrera/research?pli=1] Email: [email protected] ----------------------- Bibliography: Key findings about online dating in the U.S. | Pew Research Center [https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/] Kierkegaard - The Seducer's Diary | Princeton University Press [https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691158419/the-seducers-diary] Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre 1946 (marxists.org) [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm] Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners? - William D'Alessandro [https://philarchive.org/archive/DALIIB] (see social science references contained therein) C. Thi Nguyen - How Twitter gamifies communication - PhilPapers [https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUHTG] Paradox of Hedonism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (utm.edu) [https://iep.utm.edu/paradox-of-hedonism/] ----------------------- Cover Artwork by Logan Fritts ------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/simon-folwar/neon-signs License code: XZ0M3FIAMJSIK86P