Tag: "humour"

The Nature of Laughing at Ourselves

Mordechai Gordon takes ideas about not taking ourselves too seriously seriously.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016: Humor]

The Philosophy of a Controversial Joke

Isadora Mosch considers why we laugh at things that aren’t funny.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016: Humor]

In Defense of Humorous Nihilism

John Marmysz looks on the funny side of absolute nothingness.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016: Humor]

Forbidden Fruit

by Joel Marks
[Issue 92: September/October 2012: Ethical Episodes]

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]

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]

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