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More on Morreall on Laughter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Karl Pfeifer
Karl Pfeifer
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University of Saskatchewan
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 161 - 166
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1987

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References

1 Morreall, John, “Laughter, Suddenness, and Pleasure”, Dialogue 23 (1984), 689–694.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Parenthetical page references are to this article.

2 Pfeifer, Karl, “Laughing Matters”, Dialogue 22 (1983), 695–697;CrossRefGoogle Scholar also see: Pfeifer, Karl, Review of Taking Laughter Seriously by Morreall, John, Journal of Mind and Behavior 5 (1984), 115–118Google Scholar.

3 The quotation marks are Morreall's. I am not sure what their significance is supposed to be; but if it is tantamount to that of the use I urged in the plover case, he is in trouble.

4 Unhappily, Morreall is silent on the issue of suddenness for non-standard cases. Does embarrassed laughter require a sudden change that one has to cope with? Or must the laughter produce a sudden change for there to be successful coping? 1 leave these tantalizing questions as an exercise for the reader.

5 Dennett, Daniel, “Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology”, Canadian Psychology!Psychologie Canadienne 27 (1986), 149–154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 This paper derives from work done under a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am grateful to the Council for its generous support.