Round 18: Tossup 12

This adjective denotes a form of “inference” theorized by John R. Platt, in which “alternative hypotheses” are ruled out by a “logical tree” of experiments. The paper “Anti-Latour” defends an approach named for this adjective, whose explanatory principles of causality, impartiality, symmetry, and reflexivity were defined by David Bloor. This adjective denotes a type of “objectivity” (10[2])that improves on spontaneous feminist empiricism (-5[1])in the standpoint theory of Sandra (10[1])Harding. This adjective names a “program” introduced (10[1])by the Edinburgh School for research on scientific knowledge. A 1980 paper used this adjective to name a hypothesis later called computationalism, (-5[2])which holds that an appropriately programmed computer (-5[2])really [emphasize] is (10[1])a mind. For 10 points, John Searle’s (-5[2])Chinese (10[1])Room thought experiment (10[2]-5[1])targets (10[1])a type of AI (10[1]-5[1])known (10[1])by (10[1])what adjective? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[7]0[2])

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