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Robinson Erhardt
54 - Luvell Anderson: Slurs, Hate Speech, and The Philosophy of Humor
1 hour 30 minutes Posted Feb 24, 2023 at 12:00 am.
In This Episode
Introduction
Luvell’s Interest in Comedy
What is Humor?
Slurs and Hate Speech
Is Humor Uniquely Human?
Racial Humor and Racist Humor
Sexist Humor
Dave Chappelle
Roasting Ethics
A Genetic Approach to Comedy
Horror and Humor
Comedy, Connection, and Progressive Change
What Makes Comedy Human
Audience Sensitivity
Humor and Media Psychology
Laughing With and Laughing At
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Luvell Anderson is a professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, where he’s also an affiliate faculty member of Women’s and Gender Studies and African American Studies. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race and the soon-to-be-released Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. He is also currently working on a book about the philosophy of humor—The Ethics of Racial Humor—which is the topic of this episode. After beginning with a discussion of just what humor is, Luvell and Robinson move on to the distinction between racial and racist humor, Dave Chappelle, the ethics of roasting, what makes comedy human, and more. You can keep up with Luvell at andersonluvell.weebly.com and through his Twitter account, @luvell_anderson.
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.