Philosophy of Jokes

Feb 27 | 6.00-7.30pm | Elm Library

Telling and making jokes can break the ice, affirm our sense of community, ease tension, and bring joy. But joke telling can also be fraught, a source of offense, and an instrument of exclusion. Can there be an ethics of joking? What does the experience of humor tell us about the human condition?

A discussion over dinner, this even is open to all current Yale students. Spaces are limited; RSVP using the form below.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

William Hazlitt