Frances Power Cobbe - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

This author combined Kantian ethics, theism, and intuitionism in her book An Essay on Intuitive Morals. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Anglo-Irish philosopher who wrote the 1863 treatise The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes and founded the National Anti-Vivisection Society.

ANSWER: Frances Power Cobbe

[10e] Despite being a friend of this man, Cobbe wrote an essay titled for his philosophy “and Morals,” criticizing his explanation of the origin of ethics. Her essay was a response to this man’s book The Descent of Man.

ANSWER: Charles Darwin [or Charles Robert Darwin; accept “Darwinism and Morals”]

[10m] One of Cobbe’s major works of feminism is titled for this concept “of Woman.” This two-word phrase is the standard English translation of a term that Aristotle’s Physics groups with “material,” “formal,” and “efficient” explanations for why something is as it is.

ANSWER: final cause [accept “The Final Cause of Woman”; prompt on cause; prompt on telos by asking “What is the standard two-word English translation?”]

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
British Columbia	WUSTL B	10	0	10	E
Chicago B	Toronto C	0	0	0
Columbia A	Chicago A	10	0	10	E
Georgia State	Northwestern	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech	Texas	10	0	10	E
Illinois A	NYU	10	10	20	EM
Indiana	MIT	10	0	10	E
Minnesota	Winona State	0	10	10	M
North Carolina B	UC Berkeley A	10	0	10	E
Ottawa	Harvard	10	10	20	EM
Rutgers	RIT	10	10	20	EM
Stanford	Johns Hopkins	10	10	20	EM
Toronto A	Arizona State	10	10	20	EM
Toronto B	Michigan	10	10	20	EM
UCF	UC Berkeley B	10	0	10	E
Virginia Tech	Ohio State	0	10	10	M
WUSTL A	Florida	10	0	10	E
Waterloo A	Vanderbilt	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	18	13.33	83%	50%	0%