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What Makes This Question Funny?
Jeffrey Gordon delivers the punch line.
[Issue 80: August/September 2010: The Human Condition]
Laughter is a Time Machine
Mark Weeks sees the funny side of suspended animation.
[Issue 80: August/September 2010: The Human Condition]
Is This Some Kind Of Joke?
Tim Madigan laughs at platypi.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007: Books]
Philosophy & Humour
Is there a possible world in which the great philosophers became successful standup comedians instead? No, there isn’t, says Trevor Curnow – and he shows us why…
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]
Only Joking?
Last year Laurence Goldstein stepped down from his post as head of the ever-turbulent Philosophy Department at the University of Wales Swansea, following a battery of allegations made by three of his colleagues and a complaint that he had told jokes ‘with sexual overtones’ at a departmental Christmas party. He, and other colleagues who left at the same time, were unwilling to continue working in a department where, for years, brutal hostility has prevailed. On the plus side, however, the experience did inspire him to write this article.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Articles]
Film Comedy
What became of the raucous laughter and inspired slapstick anarchism of the early silent comedies? Our regular film commentator Thomas Wartenberg traces the trajectory of film comedy from laughter to romance.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Films]
The Secret of Seinfeld’s Humor
Jorge J.E. Gracia on the Significance of the Insignificant.
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Humour]
The Inevitable Philosophy Lightbulb Jokes
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Humour]
Philosophy and Humor
An introduction by Tim Madigan.
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Humour]
The Philosopher as Joker
Peter Rickman on the unsettling similarities between jokes and philosophy.
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Humour]
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