Question
A Frans de Waal book about this order and “philosophers” examines morality through an evolutionary lens. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this taxonomic order to which most philosophers belong, which is also studied in de Waal’s research on apes.
ANSWER: primates [accept Primates and Philosophers]
[10h] Primates and Philosophers includes responses from Peter Singer and this Harvard philosopher who argued for animal rights using Kantian ethics in her book Fellow Creatures. This thinker wrote The Sources of Normativity.
ANSWER: Christine Korsgaard [or Christine Marion Korsgaard]
[10m] Much of de Waal’s work is critical of “veneer theory,” which de Waal traced back to this earlier thinker. In one book, this thinker claimed that the agreement of men is “is by covenant only” while defining a commonwealth.
ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes (The book is Leviathan.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 8.57 | 29% | 57% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 50% | 70% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 29% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 43% | 86% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 7.50 | 38% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 50% | 70% | 20% |
Data
| Durham B | Bristol A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Bristol B | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt | Cambridge D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham A | Manchester | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Birmingham | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE A | Imperial B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford B | LSE B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Warwick A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |