Lydia Amir

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #242424; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Professor<strong> Lydia Amir&nbsp;</strong>teaches at the Philosophy Department at Tufts University. She is Founding President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor and Co-Director of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. Her work as a philosophical practitioner, along her academic career, has been described in the <em>New Yorker Magazine</em> in December 2023. Known for the thesis of <em>Homo risibilis</em> - the ridiculous human being &ndash; as a contemporary philosophy for our global times and an untimely contribution to philosophy&rsquo;s perennial problems, she has published articles, essays, and monographs in ethics, the history and practice of philosophy,&nbsp;meta-philosophy, and humor. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #242424; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Of relevance to the topics of the Handbook are <em>Rethinking Philosophers&rsquo; Responsibility</em> (2017), <em>Taking Philosophy Seriously</em> (2018), <em>Philosophy, Humor, and the Human Condition: Taking Ridicule Seriously</em> (2019), and the <em>Introduction to Transformative Philosophy</em> (forthcoming <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>in Springer); the edited collections,</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk27054572;"><em><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Practicing Philosophy</span></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk84510336;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk27054572;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> (2015, with Aleksandar Fatic) and </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk84510336;"><em><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HE;">New Frontiers in Philosophical Practice</span></em></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> (2017); </span><em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #242424; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Handbook of Philosophy of Humor </span></em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #242424; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">(Palgrave Macmillan), <em>The Companion to the Philosophy of the Human Condition</em> (Brill), and the forthcoming <em>Companion to</em> <em>Living from Philosophy: Philosophy as a Way of Life</em> (Wiley-Blackwell).</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #242424; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> She edits, among others, the <em>Philosophy of Humor Yearbook</em>, which she has founded along with four book series, de Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor, Brill Series in the Philosophy of the Human Condition, de Gruyter Studies in Spinoza and his Legacy, and Lexington Series in Philosophical Practice that publishes monographs on transformative philosophy.</span></p>