Question
In one book, this thinker argued that it would be the “crudest form of cognitive dissonance” to deny the significance that we cannot describe the experience of being a Martian. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker, who argued that we cannot understand the subjective internal experience of one kind of animal even if we could transform into one, taking a position against physicalism.
ANSWER: Thomas Nagel
[10h] In 2023, Nagel published an article calling this thinker the Leader of the Martians, referring to his intelligence work in World War II. In a 1946 book, this thinker imagined a goldfinch that may or may not be stuffed to discuss provable and unprovable cases.
ANSWER: J. L. Austin
[10e] Austin’s goldfinch argument comes from a paper titled for “Other” types of these entities. Nagel argued that consciousness makes solving the problem of this entity and the body “hopeless.”
ANSWER: minds
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 17% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 63% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Bristol | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Edinburgh | Durham A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham B | KCL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kiel | Oxford C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford B | Sheffield | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |