Question
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■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 68 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | bingy academy | 77 | -5 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | In the Mood for Buzz | 83 | 10 |
Charan Pratapaneni | The cult of SGA | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 87 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 98 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Madmen and Specialists | 123 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 80.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 17% | 92.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 102.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 63% | 25% | 0% | 96.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 116.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 103.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 91.80 |