Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011], ©2011.

xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.

Introduction -- What is humor for? -- The phenomenology of humor -- A brief history of humor theories -- Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor -- Emotion and computation -- A mind that can sustain humor -- Humor and mirth -- Higher-order humor -- Objections considered -- The penumbra : nonjokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- But why do we laugh? -- The punch line.