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This thinker argued that moral judgments reduce to statements of psychological states where we desire to desire something in “is Ethics a branch of Empirical Psychology?.” This thinker attacked G.E. Moore’s consequentialism in a thought experiment about mothers of monstrous men, inspiring Moore to change it into a synthetic thesis. This thinker described his relative pacifism by contrast with absolute pacifism in “The Future of Pacifism,” and warned of atomic war in a manifesto (15[2])also named for (*) Einstein. This thinker coined the term logical atomism for his philosophical approach, and Analysis of Minds introduced his neutral monism. This thinker analyzed the sentence “the present king of France (10[1])is bald” (10[1])using his theory of descriptions. For 10 points, name this author of On Denoting. (10[1])■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
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