Tag: steve Gimbel

Steve Gimbel featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

Nov 19, 2014

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Academic Minute

in Academic Minute, The Best of Our Knowledge

As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1261), Bob has selected…
Steve Gimbel, Gettysburg College – An Ethics of Joking

Nov 7, 2014

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Academic Minute

in Philosophy

Have you ever been offended by a joke? Dr. Steve Gimbel, a professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College, discusses the nature of offensive jokes and why we seem to have an type of ethical understanding embedded in humor. Dr. Steve Gimbel‘s research focuses on the connection between scientific evidence and explanation, interpretations of the geometrical…