“Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…” by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Reading “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…” is like taking a philosophy survey course team-taught by a couple of zany ...

* Photo: Michael Todd * What do you get when you cross scholarly research and dick jokes? Nothing to laugh at, normally. But science writer Jim Holt defies the Heisenberg principle of humor — you ...

Ed Wynn, the Perfect Fool, isn't so dumb. "Do you want my definition of a hero?" he asked. "Well, a war hero is a man who gets a piece of gold on his chest for a piece of lead in his pants," he ...

What is a joke? Are there some jokes that are wrong to tell? Are there some jokes only some people can tell? What makes for a good joke? These are some of the questions that philosopher and amateur ...

The Philosophy of Humor One podcast that caught my attention is The Thoughtful Counselor, Episode 161: The Philosophy of Humor, Theories of Ridiculousness with Steven Gimbel and Alfredo Palacious (a ...

Most philosophical texts are dense and … well, textual. There are very few philosophical images, beyond the truth tables in your logic textbook, and those aren’t exactly a feat of design. Few works of ...

Man walks into a restaurant and asks: "How do you prepare your chickens?" And the cook responds: "Nothing special really. We just tell them they're gonna die." Bada boom. The human condition in a ...

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Why do some people laugh during a crisis? Source: Pixabay "The restoration of humor is one clear mark that a person is getting healthy because I think ... finding something funny means being able to ...