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  1. Scholastic Humor Database.Boaz Faraday Schuman - manuscript
    Scholastic philosophers sometimes told jokes. Some of these have been preserved in the texts. (And some are even funny!). -/- But beyond the general human interest in having fun, these thinkers had good theoretical reasons to value humor as well. This is because Aristotle himself claims that ready wit (eutrapelia) is a virtue. I published a paper on this in 2022 (“Scholastic Humor”), and since then colleagues have brought further examples to my attention. (Thanks, everyone!) -/- Here, I aim to (...)
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  2. Just Joking: The Ethics Of Humor.Robin Tapley - unknown - Yeditepe'de Felsefe (Philosophy at Yeditepe) 4.
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  3. Humour as a Conduit of Political Subversion in Rome.Jan M. Van der Molen - Jun 4, 2020 - Classics, Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Tracing Humour Conference.
    The hypothesis that approaches the use of humour throughout the ages as something approximating a coping mechanism, has been subject to a long-standing discussion in what is known as humour studies. In this particular essay, by looking through the spectacles of one of the discipline’s theories, called relief theory, I will attempt to find out whether humour was used to lighten the weight of oppression in Imperial Rome, and can thus corroborate this hypothesis.
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  4. Partida Segunda de Alfonso X el Sabio.X. Alfonso - forthcoming - Manuscrito:101-102.
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  5. The Funny Bone.Social Calendar - forthcoming - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
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  6. The source of laughter and essentic form: Is evoluton dis-covery?Manfred Clynes - forthcoming - Humanitas.
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  7. Comic lessons.Rodney S. Edgecombe - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  8. Traduction de l'humour et identite nationale «?Anne-Marie Loffler-Laurian - forthcoming - Contrastes: Revue de l'Association Pour le Developpement des Études Contrastives.
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  9. Satire.Nicholas D. More - forthcoming - In Lydia Amir (ed.), The Philosophy of Humour Handbook.
    The chapter considers philosophical views of satire, philosophy as an object of satiric scorn, kinship and tension between satire and philosophy as activities, and what philosophy's relationship to satire suggests about philosophy as a discipline.
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  10. Ethical Taboo in Humorous Play.Lukas Myers - forthcoming - Journal of Value Inquiry.
    When they are first introduced to the ethical study of humor, students and colleagues alike sometimes react skeptically. They worry that doing ethics about humor is somehow antithetical to the nature of humor, or that it risks impinging on what makes humor valuable. In this paper, I attempt to explore and explain this intuition. I provide an account of humor’s contribution to the good life which helps to explain how and in what sense we might think humor is resistant to (...)
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  11. Jokes and their relation to social reality.Anton C. Zijderveld - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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  12. Dangerous jokes: how racism and sexism weaponize humor.Claire Horisk - 2024 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this book, Claire Horisk argues that the real problem with so-called offensive jokes-such as racist, sexist, and ethnic jokes-is not that they are offensive but that they are harmful, because they transmit and reinforce stereotypes and ideas that contribute to a network of unjust disadvantage for the derogated group. She distinguishes between belittling jokes, which shore up unjust disadvantage for social groups, and disparaging jokes, which derogate powerful groups such as doctors but do not contribute to unjust disadvantage. She (...)
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  13. Cruelty and Humour.Valery Vino & Noel Carroll - 2024 - Debates in Aesthetics 19 (1):149-161.
    Philosophical discussions about humour go back to ancient aesthetics, to laughing Democritus and the aporia of Socratic self-irony, to Diogenes the Dog performing tricks on the streets of Athens, and to the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. Dramatized in texts and the arts, the comic emerges not only in popular literature and public events, like Dionysia and Saturnalia, but also in the lives of eminent philosophers in antiquity, the Renaissance, and today. Recently, humour has seen a resurgence in aesthetics, (...)
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  14. Connoisseurship.Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.) - 2023 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Within the rarefied world of art collecting, connoisseurship signifies esoteric knowledge used to judge the quality, exclusivity, desirability and even authenticity of art. As this collection of essays demonstrates, however, connoisseurship is not confined to the art world but rather practised in a variety of settings by elites and consumers alike. This volume presents a fresh approach to connoisseurship, creating a broad international dialogue about its meaning and application. It ranges across such diverse fields as consumer history, sociology and ethnography, (...)
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  15. The comic as an existential category in Kierkegaard's thought.Viktoras Bachmetjevas - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  16. Humour and cruelty.Giorgio Baruchello - 2023 - Berlin: De Gruyter. Edited by Ársæll Már Arnarsson.
    Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune's slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person's career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this, and so much else. (...)
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  17. The carnival of populism : grotesque leadership.Maura Ceci - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  18. Reimagining the Future: Comedy and Hope.Russell Ford & H. Peter Steeves - 2023 - In Ramona Mosse & Anna Street (eds.), Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy. Routledge. pp. 147-164.
    This wide-ranging conversation explores the potential of comedy to effect social change; the connections and disconnections between comedy and tragedy; the problem of laughter, humor, and ridicule; and the power of feminist humor.
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  19. Feminism's look at itself : self-hygiene through the prism of laughter.Teodora Marija Grigaitė - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  20. Cultural connoisseurship and the senses. "The Stock of a Connoisseur?": The Development and Commercialization of Wine Connoisseurship in the Long Nineteenth Century.Graham Harding - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  21. Wilhelm von Bode's Technical Art History: The 1909-1912 Investigation of the Bust of Flora Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. [REVIEW]Matthew Hayes - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  22. Fat jokes and the problem of parody.Sarah W. Hirschfield - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  23. Something better than comedy.David F. Hoinski - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  24. On Touching: Connoisseurship of Literati Walnuts in Beijing.I. -Yi Hsieh - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  25. The Scientific Approach to Collecting: Private Coin Collections in Qing Dynasty China.Lyce Jankowski - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  26. It's Okay to Laugh at Fat Bastard: Ridicule, Satire, and Immoralism.Lukas J. Myers - 2023 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 4 (1):131-162.
    Comic immoralism is the view that sometimes funny things are funny due to their having immoral properties of some sort. Immoralism has many proponents and detractors. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, I clarify the scope and content of comic immoralism as a general thesis in the philosophy of humor. I will argue that the debate about immoralism has unduly excluded certain categories of humor from inclusion, and that the language which immoralists sometimes use can be misleading. Second, (...)
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  27. Hidden congruities.Daniel O'Shiel - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  28. Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives.Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.) - 2023 - Boston: BRILL.
    Ever wondered what a contemporary philosophy of humour would entail? This book starts the conversation.
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  29. Ridere di santa ragione: etologia, filosofia e logica dell'ironia, del gioco umoristico e del paradosso.Pietro Pontremoli - 2023 - Milano: Mimesis.
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  30. Connoisseurs, Scientists and the Mineral Kingdom.Monica Price & Mike Rumsey - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  31. Connoisseur Consumer and Specialty Coffee.Ronan Torres Quintão - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  32. Aha!/Haha! - That's a good one!' On the correlation of laughter and understanding in joke reception.Mira Magdalena Sickinger - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  33. ‘Aha!/Haha! – That’s a good one!’ On the Correlation of Laughter and Understanding in Joke Reception.Mira Magdalena Sickinger - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL. pp. 80–91.
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  34. Sublime, beautiful, funny : humour in 54 of Kant's third Critique.David Sommer - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  35. Professionals, amateurs, and the market. Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c. 1848-1870.Tom Stammers - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  36. Between science and art. Beazley, Daubert, and the Burden of Proof.Peter Stewart - 2023 - In Christina Marie Anderson & Peter Stewart (eds.), Connoisseurship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  37. Prolegomena to a revised theory of humour.Alberto Voltolini - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  38. A funny taste : immoral humour and unwilling amusement.Zoe Walker - 2023 - In Daniel O'Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.
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  39. A Sensibility of Humour.Zoe Walker - 2023 - British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (1):1-16.
    What does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? One answer to this question holds that finding sexist humour funny reveals that you have sexist beliefs, whilst another holds that it reveals nothing deeper about you at all. I argue that neither of these answers are correct, as neither can capture the feeling of unwilling complicity we often get from enjoying sexist jokes. Rather, we should navigate between these two positions by understanding the sense of humour as a (...)
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  40. Kant’s Humorous Writings.E. Winters - 2023 - British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (2):289-293.
    Jokes and witticisms, built of spirit, evaporate under the glare of analysis. The lightning flash of wit might suffer slow death under painstaking scrutiny. Whe.
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  41. Sneering Satire.Luvell Anderson - 2022 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 96 (1):269-288.
    In ‘“Sneering, or Other Social Pelting”’, Lucy O’Brien understands sneering acts as ways of making feel that are aimed at socially downgrading a target. Sneers are essentially expressions of contempt. Although typically thought of as vicious, O’Brien argues they can also be used virtuously to disrupt social hierarchies, especially when taken up by people with low social status. I examine satire as a potentially effective means of carrying out this virtuous activity. I examine O’Brien’s account while exploring the conditions that (...)
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  42. Video Games and Comedy.Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Majkowski & Jaroslav Švelch (eds.) - 2022 - Palgrave Macmillan.
    Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship between video games, humour, and comedy from many different angles. The first section of the book includes chapters that engage with theories of comedy and humour, adapting them to the specifics of the video game medium. The second section explores humour in (...)
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  43. Second nature: comic performance and philosophy.Josephine Gray & Lisa Trahair (eds.) - 2022 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    Examining Henri Bergson's work, philosophy, and the body, this volume explores the history and philosophy of comedy, film, psychoanalysis and the comic performance of the future, creating a theoretical and practice-based framework for the field.
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  44. Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor.Chris A. Kramer - 2022 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 3 (1):179-207.
    In two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be consistent with the belief that the fudge is really poop. They alieve that it is disgusting, while they believe (...)
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  45. Plato’s Aesthetic Adventure: The Symposium in the Broad Light of Comedy.Lantz Fleming Miller - 2022 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (Number 2):15-26.
    Two Socratic dialogues often considered “comic”—Ion and Hippias Major—have also been contested as to their Platonic authenticity. Plato’s dialogues; while certainly engaging, can also seem grim in their philosophical intensity: At least one author has contended that the dialogue more firmly established as genuinely by Plato, Symposium; has some comic elements: This article goes a step further in suggesting that this dialogue does not merely have comic elements but is in fact a comedy. It draws on several texts in the (...)
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  46. Scholastic Humor: Ready Wit as a Virtue in Theory and Practice.Boaz Faraday Schuman - 2022 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (2):113-129.
    Scholastic philosophers can be quite funny. What’s more, they have good reason to be: Aristotle himself lists ready wit (eutrapelia) among the virtues, as a mean between excessive humor and its defect. Here, I assess Scholastic discussions of humor in theory, before turning to examples of it in practice. The last and finest of these is a joke, hitherto unacknowledged, which Aquinas makes in his famous Five Ways. Along the way, we’ll see (i) that the history of philosophy is not (...)
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  47. The Social Account of Humour.Daniel Abrahams - 2021 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51 (2):81-93.
    Philosophical accounts of humour standardly account for humour in terms of what happens within a person. On these internalist accounts, humour is to be understood in terms of cognition, perception, and sensation. These accounts, while valuable, are poorly-situated to engage the social functions of humour. They have difficulty engaging why we value humour, why we use it define ourselves and our friendships, and why it may be essential to our self-esteem. In opposition to these internal accounts, I offer a social (...)
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  48. A Clever Errand.Thomas Ames - 2021 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 2 (1):231-236.
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  49. Jokes can fail to be funny because they are immoral: The incompatibility of emotions.Dong An & Kaiyuan Chen - 2021 - Philosophical Psychology 34 (3):374-396.
    Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson have argued that to evaluate the funniness of a joke based on the consideration of whether it is morally appropriate to feel amused commits the “moralistic fallacy.” We offer a new and empirically informed reply. We argue that there is a way to take morality into consideration without committing this fallacy, that is, it is legitimate to say that for some people, witty but immoral jokes can fail to be funny because they are immoral. In (...)
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  50. (1 other version)La risa caníbal: humor, pensamiento cínico y poder.Andrés Barba - 2021 - Barcelona: Alpha Decay.
    La risa caníbal -- Chaplin vs. Hitler : un estudio sobre la parodia -- En el interior de <> -- Sobre el chiste como una de las bellas artes -- La vida privada de los cómicos -- De muñecos y hombres -- El pensamiento cínico o el arte de la performance -- George Bush, o el payaso involuntario -- Prohibir la risa : el 11 de septiembre y la comunidad herida -- El político humorista, el humorista encarcelado: psoverdad, política (...)
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