Question
This thinker argued that moral judgments reduce to statements of psychological states where we desire to desire something in “is Ethics a branch of Empirical Psychology?.” This thinker attacked G.E. Moore’s consequentialism in a thought experiment about mothers of monstrous men, inspiring Moore to change it into a synthetic thesis. This thinker described his relative pacifism by contrast with absolute pacifism in “The Future of Pacifism,” and warned of atomic war in a manifesto also named for (*) Einstein. This thinker coined the term logical atomism for his philosophical approach, and Analysis of Minds introduced his neutral monism. This thinker analyzed the sentence “the present king of France is bald” using his theory of descriptions. For 10 points, name this author of On Denoting. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 80.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 17% | 92.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 102.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 63% | 25% | 0% | 96.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 116.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 103.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 91.80 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Will Alston | SGV Ventures | U[C]SD | 38 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 68 | 15 |
Vinu Harihar | Stanford | Berkeley B | 70 | 15 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Amherst | 73 | 15 |
Nitin Rao | Harvard | Brandeis B | 73 | 15 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | Florida Tech | 73 | 15 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 73 | 15 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 73 | 15 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | SIUE | 73 | 15 |
Michael Wu | Southampton | Warwick A | 73 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | bingy academy | 77 | -5 |
Asha Basu | McGill A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 77 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 77 | 10 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Purdue B | 77 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | In the Mood for Buzz | 83 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 84 | -5 |
Charan Pratapaneni | The cult of SGA | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 87 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Maryland | 96 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 96 | 10 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Lambert | 96 | -5 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Purdue A | 96 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Jason et al. | 96 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 98 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 104 | 10 |
Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy B | 105 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale | Tufts B | 106 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman | Squidward Community College | 106 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF A | 106 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Cloze | 106 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 106 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Penn State | 107 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Bristol | 107 | 10 |
Gabriel Margolies | Boston College B | Clark Wilson | 108 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UCF B | 108 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Waterloo Basic | 108 | 10 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Milton | 108 | 10 |
Ryan Sharpe | LSE B | LSE A | 108 | 10 |
Gus Redding | Imperial B | Warwick B | 108 | 10 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | SGV Ventures | 108 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 116 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Tufts A | 122 | 10 |
Kai McFarland | BU | Bowdoin C | 123 | 0 |
Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 123 | 0 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Clark House | 123 | 0 |
Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 123 | 0 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | Brandeis A | 123 | 0 |
Richard Lim | Bowdoin C | BU | 123 | 0 |
Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Madmen and Specialists | 123 | 10 |
Eve Maramba | UF C | USF | 123 | 10 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 123 | 0 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Georgia Tech B | 123 | 10 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy C | 123 | 10 |
Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Mississippi State | 123 | 10 |
Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Warwick C | 123 | 10 |