Nancy J. Nersessian is the ''Regents' Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science'' at the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

. Her work tends to be in the areas of the philosophy of science, the

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, and the

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. She has been a foreign member of the

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since 2006.

Works

''Creating Scientific Concepts''
( MIT Press, 2008),
''Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, and Values''
(edited with L. Magnani; Kluwer 2001),
''Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery''
(edited with L. Magnani and P. Thagard; Plenum 1999),
''Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories'
(Kluwer, 1984, 1990),

References

External links

Her faculty page
at Georgia Tech Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Georgia Tech faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society {{US-academic-scientist-stub