Question

This thinker cited a Galton board to argue that an event that is determined must arise from a set of possibilities that narrow to one. In that paper, this thinker defined a “non-necessitating cause” via the example of a bomb linked to a Geiger counter. This thinker often used the example of paying a grocer for potatoes, as in a paper whose title concepts were contrasted with “institutional” ones by John Searle (“surl”). A book by this author of “Causality and Determination” and “On Brute Facts” introduced the idea of acting “under a description.” The title concept of that book holds if the performer of an action can say why they chose to do it. This author of Intention coined the term (-5[1])“consequentialism.” (10[1])For 10 points, what philosopher revived virtue ethics (10[2])in her paper “Modern Moral Philosophy”? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: G. E. M. Anscombe [or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Khugan ChanUMass BostonDartmouth A120-5
Alex JiangBrown AMIT A12110
Eren MicheletBUHarvard B12910
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ABrandeis B12910
Joy AnHarvard ATufts A13610
Elliott GomesDartmouth AUMass Boston1360

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