Humor as a Dispositional Property: Toward a Metaphysical Grounding from Analytic Functionalism

 

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Autor: Téllez Aguilar, Alexander
Médium: artículo original
Stav:Versión publicada
Datum vydání:2026
Popis:The article argues that humor is not a mental state in the strict sense but a dispositional property of certain mental states, activated by the incongruity between the expected representational content and the object's actual presentation. Classical theories (superiority, relief, and incongruity) are critically reconstructed to expose their explanatory limits, and Lewis's analytic functionalism is deployed within a non-reductive physicalist framework. This grounding accounts for humor's contextual variability by appeal to the agent's cognitive structures, and it opens projections toward the ethics of humor and the clinical study of its impairments.
Země:Portal de Revistas UNA
Instituce:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Jazyk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/23020
On-line přístup:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/23020
Klíčové slovo:humor
dispositional property
incongruity
analytic functionalism
philosophy of mind
propiedad disposicional
incongruencia
funcionalismo analítico
filosofía de la mente