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Kieran Setiya, MIT

Presented by the Philosophy Sapientia Lecture Series

9/19/2025
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Dartmouth Hall 105
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars, School of Arts and Sciences

Friday, September 19, 2025

Kieran Setiya, MIT

3:30pm
105 Dartmouth Hall 

Talk Title: "Explaining the Joke"
Description: This talk will argue for a sentimentalist theory of humour that gives a special place to the violation of norms or expectations as sufficient reason to be amused. This theory implies that unethical jokes cannot be funny and that every joke is a tacit explanation of itself.

 

Funded by the Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy, which is an endowment established in 1996 to help support the study of philosophy at Dartmouth College. For more information on Philosophy's Sapientia Lecture Series, please visit this link.

 

For more information, contact:
Prof Timothy Rosenkoetter
philosophy@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://ethics-institute.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=78131

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