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

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Hurley, Matthew M, 1977-

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Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 359 p. : illISBN:

9780262015820 (alk. paper)
9780262303552 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

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152.4/3 22

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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.

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