primates - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A Frans de Waal book about this order and “philosophers” examines morality through an evolutionary lens. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this taxonomic order to which most philosophers belong, which is also studied in de Waal’s research on apes.

ANSWER: primates [accept Primates and Philosophers]

[10h] Primates and Philosophers includes responses from Peter Singer and this Harvard philosopher who argued for animal rights using Kantian ethics in her book Fellow Creatures. This thinker wrote The Sources of Normativity.

ANSWER: Christine Korsgaard [or Christine Marion Korsgaard]

[10m] Much of de Waal’s work is critical of “veneer theory,” which de Waal traced back to this earlier thinker. In one book, this thinker claimed that the agreement of men is “is by covenant only” while defining a commonwealth.

ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes (The book is Leviathan.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	5	8.00	20%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	43%	86%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	43%	86%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	7.50	38%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	50%	70%	20%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford M	10	0	10	20
Stanford L	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Miami	UChicago D	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
Purdue D	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
UIUC A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
UChicago B	UIUC B	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UIUC C	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	UIUC D	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
Emory A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Pitt B	10	0	10	20
Kenyon B	Michigan State A	0	0	0	0
Michigan State B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Arkansas	Mississippi State	0	0	0	0
Ole Miss	Central Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
McGill E	Colorado College	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
Iowa	NYU A	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Texas B	0	0	0	0
WUSTL A	Oregon State	0	0	0	0
Vassar A	Texas C	10	0	0	10
Alberta	SFU	0	0	10	10
UBC A	UBC B	10	10	0	20
UW A	UW B	10	0	0	10
Florida Tech B	Florida State University A	0	0	0	0
UF A	UCF B	10	0	10	20
UF B	UCF A	10	0	0	10
UF C	Florida Tech A	10	0	10	20
UF D	UF F	0	0	0	0
Durham B	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Bristol B	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Manchester	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30