Question
An essay by this philosopher argues that Rawls’s “original position” argument is an even more dubious variant of Pascal’s wager. To combat the notion of “negative responsibility,” this philosopher proposed a scenario in which George might become a chemical warfare researcher, because otherwise the job will go to someone with even more zeal. This philosopher analyzed the different emotions felt by the witness to a fatal lorry accident and the driver to illustrate spectator regret versus “agent regret.” This philosopher, who opposed J. J. C. Smart in Utilitarianism: For and Against, wrote an essay that suggests that we judge Gauguin’s abandonment of his family based on how successful his art happened to be. For 10 points, name this British philosopher who wrote Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and coined the term “moral luck.” ■END■
Summary
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Iowa State | 41 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | British Columbia | 42 | 10 |
Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Texas | 72 | 10 |
Roxanne Tang | Ohio State | Winona State | 77 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Harvard | 84 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Northwestern | 87 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | NYU | 88 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Rutgers | 88 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | North Carolina A | 90 | 10 |
Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | Stanford | 90 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana | Toronto A | 100 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | WUSTL A | 119 | 10 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | Florida | 121 | -5 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Waterloo B | 127 | 10 |
Leo Law | Florida | Arizona State | 134 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | MIT | 134 | 0 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Georgia Tech | 134 | 0 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | North Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
Albert Yingzhi Nyang | LSE | WUSTL B | 134 | 10 |
June Yin | WUSTL B | LSE | 134 | 0 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Michigan | 134 | 0 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | Vanderbilt | 134 | 0 |
William Orr | Yale | Ottawa | 134 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | Ottawa | Yale | 134 | 0 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto B | Johns Hopkins | 134 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Toronto B | 134 | 0 |
Shiva Tegulla | UCF | RIT | 134 | 0 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | UCF | 134 | 0 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech | Toronto C | 134 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Virginia Tech | 134 | 0 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Columbia B | 134 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Ohio State | 134 | 10 |