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 (10[1])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 (10[1])coined (10[1])the term “consequentialism.” For 10 points, what philosopher revived virtue ethics in her paper “Modern (10[1])Moral Philosophy”? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: G. E. M. Anscombe [or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe]
<Waterloo B, Philosophy>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eshan PantNYU AMaryland B6410
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins AColumbia C11710
Richard NiuCornell BVassar A11810
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegePenn A13310
Isaac MammelMaryland AHaverford B13510
Jack RadoColumbia BGeorge Washington B13610
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Ben SterlingYale AGeorge Washington A13610
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