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Index
Epilogue
Preface
Introduction
2 What Is Humor For?
3 The Phenomenology of Humor
A. Humor as a Property of Objects or Events
B. Duchenne Laughter
C. The Systematic Ineffability of Humor
D. Funny-Ha-Ha and Funny-Huh
E. The Knowledge-Relativity of Humor
F. Mating and Dating
4 A Brief History of Humor Theories
B. Play Theories
C. Superiority Theories
D. Release Theories
E. Incongruity and Incongruity-Resolution Theories
F. Surprise Theories
G. Bergson's Mechanical Humor Theory
5 Twenty Questions for a Cognitive and Evolutionary Theory of Humor
6 Emotion and Computation
B. Does Logic or Emotion Organize Our Brains?
C. Emotions
D. The Rationality of Emotions
E. The Irrationality of Emotions
F. Emotional Algorithms
G. A Few Implications
7 A Mind That Can Sustain Humor
B. The Construction of Mental Spaces
C. Active Beliefs
D. Epistemic Caution and Commitment
E. Conflict; and Resolution
8 Humor and Mirth
B. Mirth among the Epistemic Emotions: The Microdynamics
C. Rewards for a Dirty Job Well Done
D. "Getting It": Basic Humor in Slow Motion
E. Interfering Emotions
9 Higher-Order Humor
B. The Difference between the First Person and the Third Person
C. Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism
D. Intentional Stance jokes
10 Objections Considered
B. Epistemic Undecidability
C. Apparent Counterexamples
D. A Brief Glance at Others' Models
E. Graeme Ritchie's Five Questions
11 The Penumbra: Nonjokes, Bad Jokes, and Near-Humor
A. Knowledge-Relativity
B. Scale of Intensity
C. Boundary Cases
D. Wit and Other Related Phenomena
E. Huron on the Manipulation of Expectations
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