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 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 is bald” using his theory of descriptions. For 10 points, name this author of On Denoting. ■END■
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
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