Inside jokes [electronic resource] : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 359 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
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  • BF575.L3 H89 2011eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.

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.

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