Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind /

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Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Mat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurley, Matthew M., 1977-
Otros Autores: Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), Adams, Reginald B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Laughter > Psychological aspects.
Laughter > Philosophy.
Wit and humor > Psychological aspects.
Wit and humor > Philosophy.
Rire > Aspect psychologique.
Rire > Philosophie.
Humour > Aspect psychologique.
Humour > Philosophie.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
Laughter > Psychological aspects
Wit and humor > Philosophy
Wit and humor > Psychological aspects
Lachen.
Witz.
Humor.
Psychologie.
Philosophie.
Skratt.
Humor > psykologiska aspekter.
Humor > teori, filosofi.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is humor for?
  • 3. The phenomenology of humor
  • Humor as a property of objects or events
  • Duchenne laughter
  • The systematic ineffability of humor
  • Funny-ha-ha and funny-huh
  • The knowledge-relativity of humor
  • Mating and dating.
  • 4. A brief history of humor theories
  • Biological theories
  • Play theories
  • Superiority theories
  • Release theories
  • Incongruity and incongruity-resolution theories
  • Surprise theories
  • Bergson's mechanical humor theory.
  • 5. Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor.
  • 6. Emotion and computation
  • Finding the funny bone
  • Does logic or emotion organize our brains?
  • Emotions
  • The rationality of emotions
  • The irrationality of emotions
  • Emotional algorithms
  • A few implications.
  • 7. A mind that can sustain humor
  • Fast thinking: the costs and benefits of quick-wittedness
  • The construction of mental spaces
  • Active beliefs
  • Epistemic caution and commitment
  • Conflict; and resolution.
  • 8. Humor and mirth
  • The contamination of mental spaces
  • Mirth among the epistemic emotions: the microdynamics
  • Rewards for a dirty job well done
  • "Getting it": basic humor in slow motion
  • Interfering emotions.
  • 9. Higher order humor
  • The intentional stance
  • The difference between the first person and the thrid person
  • Anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism
  • Intentional stance jokes.
  • 10. Objections considered
  • Falsifiability
  • Epistemic undecidability
  • Apparent counterexamples
  • A brief glance at other's models
  • Graeme Ritchie's five questions.
  • 11. The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor
  • Knowledge-relativity
  • Scale of intensity
  • Boundary cases
  • Wit and other related phenomena
  • Huron on the manipulation of expectations.
  • 12. But why do we laugh?
  • Laughter as communication
  • Co-opting humor and laughter
  • The Art of Comedy
  • Comedy (and Tragedy) in literature
  • Humor that heals.
  • 13. The punch line
  • Twenty questions answered
  • Could we make a robot with a sense of humor?

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