Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-; Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement); Adams, Reginald B.
2011
BF575.L3 H89 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
Author
Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-
ISBN
9780262015820 (alk. paper)
026201582X (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BF575.L3 H89 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
152.4/3
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Adams, Reginald B.
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Introduction
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 : nonjokes, bad jokes, and near-humor
But why do we laugh?
The punch line.

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