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A longtime professor at this university founded the Computer Curriculum Corporation to promote computerized learning and wrote the book Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures. A position developed primarily by philosophers at this university is summarized by the motto “If you can spray them, then they are (10[1])real.” (10[2]-5[1])Jon (10[1])Barwise and John Perry developed (10[1])situation semantics (10[1])at this university’s Center for the Study (10[1])of Language and Information. A school of philosophy named after this university includes entity realists (10[2])like Nancy Cartwright (10[1])and Ian Hacking, (10[1]-5[1])and is known as (-5[1])this university’s “disunity mafia” because of its opposition to the unity of science. Edward N. Zalta edits a resource that this university (10[2])hosts. (10[6])For 10 points, (10[1])name this West Coast university that hosts a major online (10[1])encyclopedia of philosophy. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Stanford University [accept Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; accept Stanford School; accept Stanford disunity mafia; prompt on SEP by asking “what does that stand for?”]
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Brad MacLaineTexas AIndiana A4610
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Dan NiCornell BToronto A47-5
Matt JacksonChicago AOhio State A4710
Joel MilesMinnesota AMIT A4810
Caleb KendrickMaryland AGeorgia Tech A5310
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AFlorida B5510
Anson BernsBrown AWUSTL A6210
Amogh KulkarniChicago BDuke A7710
Gio MazzeoVirginia APenn State A7710
Quynh PhungPurdue AMinnesota B8010
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AChicago C8310
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AUC Berkeley A83-5
Matthew SiffYale BGeorgia Tech B87-5
James StevensonMichigan AHouston A10910
Kevin YeUC Berkeley BVanderbilt A10910
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BRutgers B11010
Daniel SheinbergYale AFlorida A11010
Dean Ah NowClaremont AIowa State A11010
Halle FriedmanNYU AImperial A11010
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BRutgers A11010
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AColumbia A11010
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AIllinois A11310
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BYale B12310
Ian ChowToronto ACornell B12710
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley ANorthwestern A12710
Cormac BeirneMcGill ASouth Carolina A12710