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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
359

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Subjects
Philosophy, Wit and humor, Laughter, Psychological aspects

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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.

Edition Notes

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

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Cambridge, Mass

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Dewey Decimal Class
152.4/3
Library of Congress
BF575.L3 H89 2011

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xiii, 359 p. :
Number of pages
359

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OL25564817M
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026201582X
ISBN 13
9780262015820
LCCN
2010044707
OCLC/WorldCat
676725793

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