Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 359 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is humor for?
- The phenomenology of humor
- A brief history of humor theories
- Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor
- Emotion and computation
- A mind that can sustain humor
- Humor and mirth
- Higher order humor
- Objections considered
- The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor
- But why do we laugh?
- The punch line.