Originally published in 1999, The Comedy of Mind is a philosophical essay on the relationship between philosophy and laughter. Glasgow focuses on characteristic techniques and topics from the realm of comedy such as wonder, folly and madness, paradox, wordplay, unmasking, nothing and nonsense and uses these as a way of examining the limits of human thought and reason as they have come to light in philosophical reflection down the ages. Key players in this account include philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, the Cynics and Sophists, Erasmus, Montaigne, Giordano Bruno, Descartes, Locke, Hume,...