{"id":7198,"date":"2016-05-03T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:04","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":"\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                        Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defends MasterThesis\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defended his Master&#8217;s Thesis titled &#8220;Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science&#8221;. &nbsp;The committee consisted of &nbsp;the following: &nbsp;&nbsp;Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner;&nbsp;Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and&nbsp;the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n\n\n\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;. &nbsp;The committee consisted of &nbsp;the following: &nbsp;&nbsp;Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner;&nbsp;Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and&nbsp;the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen. Luke Kersten tackled a concept central to cognitive science, levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}