This thinker cited a Galton board to argue that an event that is determined must arise from a set of possibilities that narrow to one. In that paper, this thinker defined a “non-necessitating cause” via the example of a bomb linked to a Geiger counter. This thinker often used the example of paying a grocer for potatoes, as in a paper whose title concepts were contrasted with “institutional” ones by John Searle (“surl”). A book by this author of “Causality and Determination” and “On Brute Facts” introduced the idea of acting “under a description.” The title concept of that book holds if the performer of an action can say why they chose to do it. This author of Intention coined the term “consequentialism.” For 10 points, what philosopher revived virtue ethics in her paper “Modern Moral Philosophy”? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 128.50 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 120.50 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 115.40 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 121.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 128.75 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 128.75 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 102.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 10% | 113.14 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 119.86 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 136.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 56 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 56 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 56 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU A | 60 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 63 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland B | 64 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 71 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Kenyon | 84 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago D | 85 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge E | 95 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 112 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 116 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia C | 117 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 118 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Dartmouth A | 120 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 121 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Iowa State | 121 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | MIT A | 121 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | Florida State A | 121 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missouri | 121 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 121 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame A | 122 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 124 | -5 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Ohio State B | 126 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 129 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 129 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Chicago C | 130 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Illinois B | 132 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Warwick B | 132 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn A | 133 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas A | 134 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 134 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 134 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Durham | 135 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Cambridge C | 135 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 135 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Haverford B | 135 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Michigan D | 136 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 136 | 0 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 136 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 136 | 0 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 136 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 136 | 0 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | Tufts A | 136 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Imperial B | 136 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford C | 136 | 0 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge B | 136 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | NYU C | 136 | 0 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 136 | 0 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | George Washington B | 136 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 136 | 0 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | NYU B | 136 | 0 |
| Ben Sterling | Yale A | George Washington A | 136 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT B | 136 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Binghamton A | 136 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | ESF A | 136 | 0 |
| Eli Bettinger | ESF A | Cornell D | 136 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell C | 136 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 136 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 136 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Indiana B | 136 | 0 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 136 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame C | 136 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 136 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 136 | 0 |