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Humor With and Without Words

Date: 3/22/2007 - 3/23/2007; 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Location: Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities

Ted Cohen, Philosophy, University of Chicago

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Ted Cohen is Professor in Philosophy, the College, the Committee on Art and Design, and the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1962, the Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972, and has taught at the University of Chicago since 1967. Cohen works mainly in the philosophy of art. Among his recent publications are the book Jokes, and the essays, "Identifying with Metaphor," "Metaphor, Feeling, and Narrative," and "Three Problems in Kant's Aesthetics."