Bibliograph

Inside jokes, using humor to reverse-engineer the mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr

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Inside jokes, using humor to reverse-engineer the mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and index

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photographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inside jokes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr

Sub title

using humor to reverse-engineer the mind

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

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Using humor to reverse-engineer the mind

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