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54 - Luvell Anderson: Slurs, Hate Speech, and The Philosophy of Humor

54 - Luvell Anderson: Slurs, Hate Speech, and The Philosophy of Humor

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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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OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode

00:28 Introduction

3:05 Luvell’s Interest in Comedy

5:32 What is Humor?

12:22 Slurs and Hate Speech

17:45 Is Humor Uniquely Human?

23:32 Racial Humor and Racist Humor

32:48 Sexist Humor

38:51 Dave Chappelle

44:05 Roasting Ethics

53:05 A Genetic Approach to Comedy

59:12 Horror and Humor

1:05:15 Comedy, Connection, and Progressive Change

1:09:40 What Makes Comedy Human

1:14:03 Audience Sensitivity

1:17:56 Humor and Media Psychology

1:21:54 Laughing With and Laughing At

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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