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

 

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Συγγραφέας: Téllez Aguilar, Alexander
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2026
Περιγραφή: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.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UNA
Ίδρυμα:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Γλώσσα:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/23020
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/23020
Λέξη-Κλειδί :humor
dispositional property
incongruity
analytic functionalism
philosophy of mind
propiedad disposicional
incongruencia
funcionalismo analítico
filosofía de la mente