{"id":7198,"date":"2016-05-03T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:53:36","slug":"mr-luke-kersten-successfully-defends-m-cog-sc-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2016\/mr-luke-kersten-successfully-defends-m-cog-sc-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defends MasterThesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defended his Master&#8217;s Thesis titled &#8220;Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science&#8221;. \u00a0The committee consisted of \u00a0the following: \u00a0\u00a0Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner;\u00a0Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and\u00a0the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Kersten tackled a concept central to cognitive science, levels of analysis, and developed an entirely new approach to using levels talk that he calls pluralism. Taking Sun&#8217;s analysis of levels in computational models as an example, Kersten showed that his pluralistic approach generates a more complete set of interpretations of what is going in such models than Sun&#8217;s own account or anyone else&#8217;s to date. The examining board urged him to extract and publish a number of papers from his thesis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defended his Master&#8217;s Thesis titled &#8220;Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science&#8221;. \u00a0The committee consisted of \u00a0the following: \u00a0\u00a0Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner;\u00a0Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and\u00a0the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen. 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