{"id":8624,"date":"2025-02-11T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:46:34","slug":"spring-2025-colloquia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/spring-2025-colloquia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 Colloquia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a0\">The Brin Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cFinding Funny\u201d<br>David Shoemaker, Cornell<br>3:30 \u2013 5:30<br>April 18, 2025<br>CRT 175<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>ABSTRACT<br>We\u2019re all familiar with advertent humor, things that people say or do deliberately that aim to be funny (e.g. telling jokes, making wisecracks, engaging in pratfalls, etc.). But there\u2019s plenty of inadvertent humor we\u2019ve experienced as well (e.g. a dog sounding like a human, a typo in an email that alters the content hilariously). In this talk, I aim to explicate how and why to find the funny in inadvertent events like these. After beginning with a few important distinctions and then articulating the nature of the practical reasons in play, I\u2019ll start my investigation in earnest with advertent humor, which reveals a familiar model for how to understand and find certain kinds of deliberative efforts funny, even when morally offensive (and so even when they are the apt target of angry blame). I\u2019ll then apply a similar model to inadvertent humor, a kind of humor that is actually available all around us, were we to choose to seek it out. The \u201chow,\u201d in cases of advertent and inadvertent humor, will be somewhat similar, appealing to a kind of empathy (albeit with one key twist), but the \u201cwhy\u201d is very different in each case, being most fascinating and important for inadvertent humor, which, if one can find it, generates significant\u2014and underappreciated\u2014prudential and moral value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Brin-Lecture.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2025_SPRING_Brin-Lecture.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9ce9b1e2-5712-479a-9009-0095ad204923\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Brin-Lecture.pdf\">2025_SPRING_Brin-Lecture<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Brin-Lecture.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9ce9b1e2-5712-479a-9009-0095ad204923\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a1\">April 11<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nedah Nemati, Columbia<br>3:30 \u2013 5:30<br>MIT 361<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a2\">March 28<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Karl Ameriks, Notre Dame<br>3:30 \u2013 5:30<br>CRT 175<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a3\">February 21<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Wilkinson, UWM<br>\u201cMoral Knowledge and Epistemic Self-Defeat\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Colloquia-Flyer.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2025_SPRING_Colloquia-Flyer.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0354089d-9dff-44f6-83e2-1834d63a7956\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Colloquia-Flyer.pdf\">2025_SPRING_Colloquia-Flyer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/04\/2025_SPRING_Colloquia-Flyer.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0354089d-9dff-44f6-83e2-1834d63a7956\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brin Lecture \u201cFinding Funny\u201dDavid Shoemaker, Cornell3:30 \u2013 5:30April 18, 2025CRT 175 ABSTRACTWe\u2019re all familiar with advertent humor, things that people say or do deliberately that aim to be funny (e.g. telling jokes, making wisecracks, engaging in pratfalls, etc.). 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