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    Isn’T That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy.Steven Gimbel - 2017 - London: Routledge.
    The obligatory chapter -- My, how clever: what is humor and what humor is -- Joking matters -- Comedy tonight -- Killing it: humor and comedy aesthetics -- Can't you take a joke?: humor ethics -- Am I blue?: the ethics of dirty jokes -- Is that a Mic in your hand or are you just happy to see me?: comedy ethics.
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    In on the Joke: The Ethics of Humor and Comedy.Thomas Wilk & Steven Gimbel - 2024 - De Gruyter.
    Who is morally permitted to tell jokes about Jews? Poles? Women? Only those in the group? Only those who would be punching up? Anyone, since they are just jokes? All of the standard approaches are too broad or too narrow. In on the Joke provides a more sophisticated approach according to which each person possesses "joke capital" that can serve as "comic insurance" covering certain jokes in certain contexts. When Bob tells a joke about Jews, we can never know exactly (...)
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    The ontology of team: a teleo-structural account.Steven Gimbel, William Rasmussen & Stephen Stern - 2020 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 47 (3):462-476.
    An explication of the notion of sports team involves a structural and a teleological element. The basis of a team is structural – a team is a group that containing a Distributed Internal Decision (...
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    Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Writings on Space, Time and Motion.Steven Gimbel & Anke Walz (eds.) - 2009 - Cambridge University Press.
    Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became Einstein's bulldog, defending the theory against criticism from philosophers, physicists, and popular commentators. This book chronicles the development of Reichenbach's reconstruction of Einstein's theory in a way that clearly sets out all of its philosophical commitments and its physical predictions as well as the battles that Reichenbach fought on its behalf, in both the academic and popular press. (...)
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    Joke Capital vs. Punching Up/Punching Down: Accounting for the Ethical Relation between Joker and Target.Steven Gimbel & Thomas Wilk - 2024 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 5 (1):71-90.
    The currently dominant view concerning humor ethics is punching up/punching down. According to this view, members of one community with less social capital are allowed to make jokes at the expense of another with more social capital as a means of achieving social justice, while those in a community with more social capital are forbidden from making jokes about those with less. The latter is considered an act of bullying, which further entrenches pre-existing social injustice. While there is value in (...)
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    Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible? Aristotle, Stakeholders and the Non-Sale of Hershey.Steven Gimbel - 2005 - Philosophy of Management 5 (3):23-30.
    Stakeholder theory is a significant development in the drive to provide a foundation for intuitions concerning the moral responsibility connected to corporate decision making. The move to include the interests of workers, consumers, the communities and biological environment in which the corporations instantiations are located run counter to the view in which shareholders’ interests are paramount. The non-sale of the Hershey Foods company to Wrigley1 was the ultimate result of a massive call by stakeholders to put other interests before shareholder (...)
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  7. Exploring the scientific method: cases and questions.Steven Gimbel (ed.) - 2011 - London: University of Chicago Press.
    This is not how science works. But science does work, and here award-winning teacher and scholar Steven Gimbel provides students the tools to answer for themselves this question: What actually is the scientific method?
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    “Where the enemy is mighty, one must be clever”: Peone, Vico, and Guareschi on Power in Humor.Alan Perry & Steven Gimbel - 2024 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 5 (1):277-281.
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  9. Editions and Translations.Steven Gimbel & Anke Walz - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2):343-44.
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    Mackie, Martin, and INUS in the Morning.Steven Gimbel - 2024 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 33 (2):155-159.
    Distinguishing necessary and sufficient conditions can be challenging to undergraduate logic and critical thinking students. Explaining J. L. Mackie’s notion of INUS conditions—insufficient but necessary parts of unnecessary but sufficient conditions—is an even more difficult concept to understand. It is helpful to have memorable examples that not only clarify the concept, but make it easy to remember. Law student turned stand-up comedian Demetri Martin uses necessary, sufficient, and INUS conditions to construct absurdist jokes. These jokes provide effective tools for making (...)
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    Deep tautologies.Johannes Bulhof & Steven Gimbel - 2001 - Pragmatics and Cognition 9 (2):279-291.
    The standard understanding of tautologies is that they are semantically vacuous. Yet tautological utterances occur frequently in conversational discourse. One approach contends that apparent tautological statements are either genuinely tautologous and thereby semantically vacuous or are what we term “pseudo-tautologies”, i.e., sentences that only bear a formal syntactic resemblance to tautologies but are not in fact tautologous. Another approach follows Grice and asserts that the meaning of a tautological utterance derives from an inference made by the listener from the utterance (...)
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    Dad jokes, D.A.D. jokes, and the GHoST test for artificial consciousness.Steven Gimbel, Clifton Presser & Paul Mogianesi - 2021 - Science and Philosophy 9 (1):73-89.
    The ability of a computer to have a sense of humor, that is, to generate authentically funny jokes, has been taken by some theorists to be a sufficient condition for artificial consciousness. Creativity, the argument goes, is indicative of consciousness and the ability to be funny indicates creativity. While this line fails to offer a legitimate test for artificial consciousness, it does point in a possibly correct direction. There is a relation between consciousness and humor, but it relies on a (...)
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  13. Un-conventional wisdom: theory-specificity in Reichenbach's geometric conventionalism.Steven Gimbel - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35 (3):457-481.
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    Jerry Seinfeld as Philosopher: The Assimilated Sage of New Chelm.Stephen Stern & Steven Gimbel - 2022 - In David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 1631-1641.
    The epistemic foundation of Hellenic-Christian thought is based on a correspondence between thought and a single reality, but the epistemic foundation of Jewish thought stresses the creative act of perspectival interpretation of an absolute text. This stress on wisdom from extracting a multiplicity of contextualized understandings of an absolute can be seen in the writings of the great rabbis, but also in the work of Jerry Seinfeld. Where Talmudic thought takes as its basis, passages of the Torah as its source (...)
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    “I Said Something Wrong”: Transworld Obligation in Yesterday.Steven Gimbel & Thomas Wilk - 2021 - Film-Philosophy 25 (2):151-164.
    Danny Boyle's film Yesterday is a contemporary morality play in which the main character, Jack Malik, a failing singer-songwriter, is magically sent to a different possible world in which the Beatles never existed. Possessing his memory of the Beatles’ catalogue in the new possible world, he is now in sole possession of an extremely valuable artifact. Recording and performing the songs of the Beatles and passing them off as his own, he becomes rich, famous, and deeply unhappy. Once he confesses (...)
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    Bild-ing Science: The Multiplicity of Bild-Types in Boltzmann.Steven Gimbel & Richard Lambert - forthcoming - Foundations of Science:1-20.
    Ludwig Boltzmann’s Bildtheorie has been portrayed as a pre-cursor of the semantic view of theories and as such, the word “Bild” is translated as model. But this anachronistic understanding of Boltzmann’s use of Bilder fails to account for the wide range of roles they play in his understanding of scientific methodology. When the concept of Bild is understood historically in Viennese thought, a much broader sense emerges that leads to the investigation of its use in multiple ways in various contexts (...)
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    It’s about Time: Film, Video Games, and the Advancement of an Artform.Steven Gimbel & Joseph Roman - 2019 - Philosophies 4 (4):56.
    Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin have argued that the insights obtained through the philosophical analysis of video games is not specific to video games, but to a larger class of artistic creations they term Self-Involving Interactive Fictions, or SIIFs. But there is at least one aspect of SIIF video games that is philosophically interesting and does not apply to the class of SIIFs as a whole, the ability to represent non-classical time. If SIIF video games are considered to be an (...)
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    Free-Range Philosophy: Modes of Philosophical Analysis across the Discipline … and across the Road.Vernon Cisney & Steven Gimbel - 2021 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 2 (1):189-202.
    Philosophy’s richness comes in part from the wide range of conceptual frameworks from which meaning can be made of aspects of the world. Philosophy can be done from feminist, Marxist, positivist, or Freudian standpoints. The difference in the sorts of analyses produced by these different approaches can be tricky to explain to undergraduates. Contained here are short explanations of the nature of a collection of these frameworks and a fun example of each, an analysis of the chicken crossing the road (...)
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    Avoiding the Super-Naturalistic Fallacy: Practical Reasoning and the Insightful Undergraduate.Steven Gimbel - 2002 - Journal of Thought 37 (3).
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    Einstein's Jewish science: physics at the intersection of politics and religion.Steven Gimbel - 2012 - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    Introduction : Einstein's Jewish science -- Is Einstein a Jew? -- Is relativity pregnant with Jewish concepts? -- Why did a Jew formulate the theory of relativity? -- Is the theory of relativity political science or scientific politics? -- Einstein and the Jewish intelligentsia -- Einstein's liberal science? -- Conclusion : Einstein's cosmopolitan science.
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    Get with the program: Kasparov, deep blue, and accusations of unsportsthinglike conduct.Steven Gimbel - 1998 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (2):145–154.
    Garry Kasparov made two allegations of unfairness in his recent chess match with the computer ‘Deep Blue’. The purpose of this inquiry is to determine whether the ethos of the contest would be violated if the purported activities had occurred and on what grounds. Kasparov’s first allegation, that the program was tampered with during play, would if true, violate fair play as it would encroach on Deep Blue’s autonomy, a necessary condition for fair play in individual strategic endeavours. The most (...)
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  22. Heckler Ethics.Steven Gimbel - 2015 - Florida Philosophical Review 15 (1):78-87.
    The discourse surrounding humor and ethics has focused exclusively on jokes – Are certain jokes immoral to tell? Why can some people tell some jokes and not others? How soon is too soon? Two cases which have widely considered important in assessing the answers to these questions – those of Michael Richards and Daniel Tosh – actually fail to address the questions at all in that while the events discussed occurred during the comedians’ sets in a comedy club, neither were (...)
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  23. It's Funny 'Cause It's True: The Lighthearted Philosophers Society's Introduction to Philosophy through Humor.Steven Gimbel & Jennifer Marra Henrigillis (eds.) - 2021
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    If I Had a Hammer: Why Logical Positivism Better Accounts for the Need for Gender and Cultural Studies.Steven Gimbel - 2000 - Studies in Practical Philosophy 2 (2):150-166.
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    Isn’t That Response Clever? A Reply to Critics.Steven Gimbel - 2021 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 2 (1):239-250.
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    Inconsistent, Vague, and…Just? An Analysis of the National Football League’s 2021 COVID-19 Policy.Steven Gimbel & Joseph Radzevick - 2022 - Philosophies 7 (2):27.
    The National Football League, the premier professional organization for American football, developed a policy concerning the protocol in cases where players contract COVID-19. This policy includes elements such as collective punishment that appear, at first glance, to be morally problematic. To the contrary, the policy is indeed morally acceptable as we should not think of organizations such as the NFL in the same way we think of governments in stable nations, but rather in the same way that we think of (...)
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  27. Living pink.Steven Gimbel - 2007 - In George A. Reisch (ed.), Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with That Axiom, Eugene! Open Court.
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  28. Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein.Steven Gimbel & Jeffrey Maynes - 2011 - In Gregory J. Morgan (ed.), Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein. , US: Oxford University Press. pp. 1.
  29. Praxis, Poems, and Punchlines: Essays in Honor of Richard C. Richards.Steven Gimbel (ed.) - 2020
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    Restoring ambiguity to Achinstein's account of evidence.Steven Gimbel - 2004 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2):269-285.
    , Peter Achinstein argues against the long-standing claim that ‘evidence’ is ambiguous in possessing a sense of confirming evidence and a sense of supporting evidence. He argues that explications of supporting evidence will necessarily violate his contentions that evidence is a discontinuous ‘threshold concept’ and that any philosophical account of supporting evidence will be too weak to be useful to working scientists. But an account of supporting evidence may be formulated which includes Achinstein's notion of epistemic thresholds that finds examples (...)
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    The greening of white pride.Steven Gimbel - 2004 - Philosophy and Geography 7 (1):123-140.
    At first glance, it is surprising that contemporary racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan advertise a pro‐environmental stance. This fact, however, might be expected by Luc Ferry, who argues for a connection between the racism and nature protection laws of the Third Reich. Ferry argues that a non‐anthropocentric approach to nature makes it easier to dehumanize humans so that a non‐anthropocentric environmental ethic can transform into racist environmentalism. Does this contemporary case vindicate Ferry? We argue that it does not. (...)
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    An intervening cause counterexample to Railton's DNP model of explanation.Stuart Gluck & Steven Gimbel - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (4):692-697.
    Peter Railton (1978) has introduced the influential deductive-nomological-probabilistic (DNP) model of explanation which is the culmination of a tradition of formal, non-pragmatic accounts of scientific explanation. The other models in this tradition have been shown to be susceptible to a class of counterexamples involving intervening causes which speak against their sufficiency. This treatment has never been extended to the DNP model; we contend that the usual form of these counterexamples is ineffective in this case. However, we develop below a new (...)
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    Woke Comedy vs. Pride Comedy: Kondabolu, Peters, and the Ethics of Performed Indian Accents.Jingwei Zhan, Rushil Chandra & Steven Gimbel - 2020 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1):211-219.
    Humor can be used as a tool for a wide range of tasks, including fighting for social justice. How to most effectively use it, however, is a matter of contention. Jokes that alienate members of an out-group can be called “Otherizing,” and can cause harm by virtue of the alienation. Woke comics, like Hari Kondabolu, intentionally avoid Otherizing in general, but may engage in a version of it that seeks to defang stereotypical treatments of out-groups by replacing the alienating content (...)
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    Peirce snatching: Towards a more pragmatic view of evidence. [REVIEW]Steven Gimbel - 1999 - Erkenntnis 51 (2-3):207-231.
    The running debate between Peter Achinstein and his critics concerning the nature of scientific evidence is misguided as each side attempts to explicate a distinct notion of evidence. Achinstein's approach, however, is valuable in helping to point out a problem with Carnap's statistical relevance model. By claiming an increase in probability to be necessary for evidence, the received view is incapable of accounting for evidence which is statistically irrelevant but explanatorily relevant. A broader view of evidence which can account for (...)
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    Steven Gimbel: The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives, Al Gini. Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. pp. 168. [REVIEW]Steven Gimbel - 2020 - The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1):277-279.
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    The Annotated Flatland. [REVIEW]Steven Gimbel - 2003 - Teaching Philosophy 26 (1):83-85.
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    Retroductive Analogy: How to and How Not to Make Claims of Good Reasons to Believe in Evolutionary and Anti-Evolutionary Hypotheses. [REVIEW]Chuck Ward & Steven Gimbel - 2010 - Argumentation 24 (1):71-84.
    This paper describes an argumentative fallacy we call ‘Retroductive Analogy.’ It occurs when the ability of a favored hypothesis to explain some phenomena, together with the fact that hypotheses of a similar sort are well supported, is taken to be sufficient evidence to accept the hypothesis. This fallacy derives from the retroductive or abductive form of reasoning described by Charles Sanders Peirce. According to Peirce’s account, retroduction can provide good reasons to pursue a hypothesis but does not, by itself, provide (...)
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