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, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...

. She is a fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

. She has been a foreign member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

since 2006.

Life

She graduated from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

and

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

.Her work is in the areas of the

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, ...

, the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

, and the

psychology of science The psychology of science is a branch of the studies of social science defined most simply as the study of scientific thought or behavior. It is a collection of studies of various topics. The thought of psychology has been around since the late 19 ...

. In 2005–2006, she was a Radcliffe Institute fellow. Her book, ''Interdisciplinarity in the making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science'' , was long listed for the Al-Rodhan Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize.

Works

*Interdisciplinary in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science (MIT Press, 2022),
''Creating Scientific Concepts''
(

MIT Press The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes a number of academic journals and has been a pioneer in the Open Ac ...

, 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

* https://nancynersessian.com/ * 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