{"id":17932,"date":"2026-10-02T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=17932"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:03:33","slug":"philosophy-cognitive-science-colloquium-october-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2026\/philosophy-cognitive-science-colloquium-october-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy &#038; Cognitive Science Colloquium &#8211;October 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Philosophy &#038; Cognitive Science Colloquium &#8211;October 9th \n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are warmly invited to a talk from one of our Carleton Cognitive Science alumni, <br>Prof. Luke Kersten (now at the University of Alberta), on the exciting topic of artificial consciousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The talk is co-sponsored by both the Departments of <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Cognitive Science<\/em> and <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Philosophy<\/em>.<br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2026\/09\/Copy-of-Fall2026-Kersten.png\">Computational Functionalism and Artificial Consciousness: A Pragmatic Approach<\/a><br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">When: <\/strong><strong>Friday Oct. 9 2:30-4:00 pm<\/strong><br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Where:<\/strong> <strong><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">River Building Room 3228<\/strong> <\/strong>during the regular Philosophy Colloquium timeslot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/10\/Kersten-Luke-U-of-A-Oct-2026.png\" alt=\"Dr. Luke Kersten of the University of Alberta\" class=\"wp-image-17935\" style=\"width:143px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk is co-sponsored by both the Departments of Cognitive Science and Philosophy.Title: Computational Functionalism and Artificial Consciousness: A Pragmatic ApproachWhen: Friday Oct. 9 2:30-4:00 pmWhere: River Building Room 3228 during the regular Philosophy Colloquium timeslot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,102,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colloquia","category-event","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17939,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions\/17939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}