Question
An essay by this philosopher argues that Rawls’s “original position” argument is an even more dubious variant of Pascal’s wager. To combat the notion of “negative responsibility,” this philosopher proposed a scenario in which George might become a chemical warfare researcher, because otherwise the job will go to someone with even more zeal. This philosopher analyzed the different emotions felt by the witness to a fatal lorry accident and the driver to illustrate spectator regret versus “agent regret.” This philosopher, who opposed J. J. C. Smart in Utilitarianism: For and Against, wrote an essay that suggests that we judge Gauguin’s abandonment of his family based on how successful his art happened to be. For 10 points, name this British philosopher who wrote Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and coined the term “moral luck.” ■END■
Summary
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Iowa State | 41 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | British Columbia | 42 | 10 |
Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Texas | 72 | 10 |
Roxanne Tang | Ohio State | Winona State | 77 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Harvard | 84 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Northwestern | 87 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | NYU | 88 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Rutgers | 88 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | North Carolina A | 90 | 10 |
Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | Stanford | 90 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana | Toronto A | 100 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | WUSTL A | 119 | 10 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | Florida | 121 | -5 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Waterloo B | 127 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Columbia B | 134 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | Vanderbilt | 134 | 0 |
William Orr | Yale | Ottawa | 134 | 0 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto B | Johns Hopkins | 134 | 0 |
Leo Law | Florida | Arizona State | 134 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Ohio State | 134 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Michigan | 134 | 0 |
Shiva Tegulla | UCF | RIT | 134 | 0 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | North Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Toronto B | 134 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | MIT | 134 | 0 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech | Toronto C | 134 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Georgia Tech | 134 | 0 |
Albert Yingzhi Nyang | LSE | WUSTL B | 134 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | UCF | 134 | 0 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Virginia Tech | 134 | 0 |
June Yin | WUSTL B | LSE | 134 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | Ottawa | Yale | 134 | 0 |