Hostname: page-component-669899f699-tzmfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-03T23:38:30.505Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Discussion of Julian Baggini's ‘Comedy as Philosophy’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2025

Julian Baggini ,
Chelsea Birkby ,
Graeme A. Forbes  and
Simon Kirchin
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Discussion
Information
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 96: The Philosophy of Comedy , October 2024 , pp. 29 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

Footnotes

Transcribed and Edited by Simon Kirchin

References

Birkby, Chelsea, No More Mr. Nice Chelsea, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2022).Google Scholar
Carroll, Noël, ‘On Jokes’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 16:1 (1991), 280–301.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Confucius, Analects, in James Legge (ed. and trans.), The Chinese Classics, Vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893).Google Scholar
Franklin, James, ‘Pascal's Wager and the Origins of Decision Theory: Decision-Making by Real Decision-Makers’, in Bartha, Paul and Pasternack, Lawrence (eds.), Pascal's Wager (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 27–44.Google Scholar
Gimbel, Stephen, Isn't that Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy (London: Routledge, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kim, Hannah H., ‘Generating and Grounding Fictional Truth’, PhD Thesis (Stanford University, 2021).Google Scholar
Mulhall, Stephen, On Film (London: Routledge, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thi Nguyen, C., ‘Playfulness versus Epistemic Traps’, in Alfano, Mark, Klein, Colin, and Ridder, Jeroen de (eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology (London: Routledge, 2022), 269–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Palamides, Natalie, Nate – A One Man Show, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (20180. Subsequently available on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81264694 (Paper Kite Productions).Google Scholar
Smith, Murray, ‘Film, Philosophy, and the Varieties of Artistic Value’, in Thomson-Jones, Katherine (ed.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film (New York: Routledge, 2016), 182–201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wartenberg, Thomas, ‘Film as Philosophy: The Pro Position’, in Thomson-Jones, Katherine (ed.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film (New York: Routledge, 2016), 165–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilde, Larry, Great Comedians Talk about Comedy, 2nd ed. (New York: Executive Books, 2000).Google Scholar
Woodward, Richard, ‘Truth in Fiction’, Philosophy Compass, 6:3 (2011), 158–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar