Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind :: Matthew M. Hurley :: ISBN 9780262015820 :: MIT Press 2011 :: OBNB, the Open British National Bibliography

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Title Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind
Author Matthew M. Hurley
Contributors D. C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams
Publisher MIT Press
Publication date 2011
Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
Language English

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.

Topics

Laughter :: Psychological aspects
Laughter :: Philosophy
Wit and humor :: Psychological aspects
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OBNB ID GBB106013
ISBN 10 026201582X
ISBN 13 9780262015820
Type BibliographicResource, Book
Dewey Classification 152.43

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P1053 xiii, 359 p.
P1042 Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.

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Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind

Matthew M. Hurley

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