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Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind
- Title
- Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams.
- Author
- Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 359 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.
- Contents
- 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 : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- But why do we laugh? -- The punch line.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2046
- ISBN
- 9780262015820 (alk. paper)
- 026201582X (alk. paper)
- 9780262518697
- 0262518694
- LCCN
- 2010044707
- OCLC
- 676725793
- Author
- Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-
- Title
- Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.
- Added Author
- Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)Adams, Reginald B.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2046