Question
Answer the following about the Australian philosopher Val Plumwood, for 10 points each.
[10h] In her paper “Nature, Self, and Gender” Plumwood argues that a view named for what field fails to correctly dissolve the “discontinuity thesis”? Arne Næss (“AR-nuh NESS”) coined the name of a “deep” variant of this field.
ANSWER: deep ecology [prompt on ecosophy or ecophilosophy or ecological wisdom]
[10e] Plumwood criticized philosophy’s male-centered past as part of her work in the “eco-” variant of this movement, which opposes the patriarchy.
ANSWER: feminism [accept ecofeminism]
[10m] In 1985, Plumwood was nearly killed by a crocodile, leading to her adoption of a view of the food chain that she named in homage to this presocratic philosopher’s statement that “everything flows.”
ANSWER: Heraclitus of Ephesus [accept Heraclitean universe]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
Data
| Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn B | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell C | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |