Hume, Kant, And Road Runner On Causation

Film and Philosophy 14:63-70 (2010)
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This paper uses the humor of Road Runner cartoons as a test of our intuitions about causality as these intuitions are appealed to by the rival theories of Hume and Kant. I argue that Road Runner cartoons are funnier to Kantians, with their stronger presumption of necessary causal regularity, and therefore supportive of Kantianism to the degree that we find this humor compelling.

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Kant-Bibliographie 2009.Margit Ruffing - 2011 - Kant Studien 102 (4):499-540.

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