Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters »

Ted Cohen is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Essays in Kant's Aesthetics and Pursuits of Reason.

Jokes is a book of jokes as well as a book about them. Ted Cohen loves a good laugh, but as a philosopher, he is also interested in how jokes work, why they work, and when they don't. Jokes: more humorous than other philosophy books, more philosophical than other humor books.

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Jokes Are Conditional
3. When Jokes Are Asymmetrical
4. Problems and Occasions for Joke-making
5. Jewish Jokes and the Acceptance of Absurdity
6. Taste, Morality, and the Propriety of Joking Appendix Index of Jokes