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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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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	xiii, 359 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Laughter -- Psychological aspects.
	Laughter -- Philosophy.
	Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects.
	Wit and humor -- Philosophy.
Added Author	Dennett, Daniel Clement.
	Adams, Reginald B.
	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780262015820 (alk. paper)
	9780262303552 (e-book)
OCLC #	EBC3339581

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