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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 (10[1])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 (-5[1])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 “consequentialism.” (10[1])For 10 points, what philosopher revived virtue ethics in (10[1])her paper (10[1])“Modern Moral (10[1])Philosophy”? ■END■ (0[1])

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