2005 IDEAS Boston Speaker Explores What Makes Things Funny

Just when you thought that philosophers have no sense of humor, renowned philosopher, 2005 IDEAS Boston speaker, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University Daniel Dennett has co-authored Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind.  Written with Matthew Hurley, a doctoral student at Indiana University, and Tufts psychologist Reginald Adams Jr., the book explores why humans find things funny.

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