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    Effects of number of relevant dimensions in disjunctive concept learning.Nancy J. Looney & Robert C. Haygood - 1968 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 78 (1):169.
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    Intentionality.Nancy J. Holland - 1986 - Noûs 20 (1):103-108.
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  3. Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1987 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (4):575-577.
     
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    Aether/Or: The Creation of Scientific Concepts.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1984 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 15 (3):175.
  5. Heidegger and the problem of consciousness.Nancy J. Holland - 2018 - Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library.
    Charlemagne's monogram -- Introduction -- The problem of consciousness -- The earliest vision -- Truth, being, and mind -- The Kehre -- The essence of truth -- The later Heidegger -- Reading Heidegger after Heidegger -- Being not a soul but the unmediated discovery of being.
     
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  6. Symposium on Nancy J. Hirschmann's The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom: Introduction.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2001 - Hypatia 21 (4):178-181.
  7. A possible role for cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain and pontomesencephalon in consciousness.Nancy J. Woolf - 1997 - Consciousness and Cognition 6 (4):574-596.
    Excitation at widely dispersed loci in the cerebral cortex may represent a neural correlate of consciousness. Accordingly, each unique combination of excited neurons would determine the content of a conscious moment. This conceptualization would be strengthened if we could identify what orchestrates the various combinations of excited neurons. In the present paper, cholinergic afferents to the cerebral cortex are hypothesized to enhance activity at specific cortical circuits and determine the content of a conscious moment by activating certain combinations of postsynaptic (...)
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  8. Creating Scientific Concepts.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2008 - MIT Press.
    How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken. Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material resources provided by the (...)
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    Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science.Nancy J. Nersessian & Miles MacLeod - 2022 - Philosophy of Science 89 (4):721-741.
    We lay groundwork for applying ethnographic methods in philosophy of science. We frame our analysis in terms of two tasks: to identify the benefits of an ethnographic approach in philosophy of science and to structure an ethnographic approach for philosophical investigation best adapted to provide information relevant to philosophical interests and epistemic values. To this end, we advocate for a purpose-guided form of cognitive ethnography that mediates between the explanatory and normative interests of philosophy of science, while maintaining openness and (...)
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    Research labs as distributed cognitive-cultural systems.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2024 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (4):1-25.
    Scientists, either working alone or in groups, require rich cognitive, social, cultural, and material environments to accomplish their epistemic aims. There is research in the cognitive sciences that examines intelligent behavior as a function of the environment (“environmental perspectives”), which can be used to examine how scientists integrate “cognitive-cultural” resources as they create environments for problem-solving. In this paper, I advance the position that an expanded framework of distributed cognition can provide conceptual, analytical, and methodological tools to investigate how scientists (...)
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    Interdisciplinarities in Action: Cognitive Ethnography of Bioengineering Sciences Research Laboratories.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2019 - Perspectives on Science 27 (4):553-581.
    The paper frames interdisciplinary research as creating complex, distributed cognitive-cultural systems. It introduces and elaborates on the method of cognitive ethnography as a primary means for investigating interdisciplinary cognitive and learning practices in situ. The analysis draws from findings of nearly 20 years of investigating such practices in research laboratories in pioneering bioengineering sciences. It examines goals and challenges of two quite different kinds of integrative problem-solving practices: biomedical engineering (hybridization) and integrative systems biology (collaborative interdependence). Practical lessons for facilitating (...)
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  12. James Robert Brown: Thought experiments and platonism. Part two.Nancy J. Nersessian, Dunja Jutronic, Ksenija Puskaric, Nenad Miscevic, Andreas K. A. Georgiou & James Robert Brown - 2007 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 7 (20):125-268.
     
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  13. Model‐Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2006 - Philosophy of Science 73 (5):699-709.
    This paper examines the nature of model-based reasoning in the interplay between theory and experiment in the context of biomedical engineering research laboratories, where problem solving involves using physical models. These "model systems" are sites of experimentation where in vitro models are used to screen, control, and simulate specific aspects of in vivo phenomena. As with all models, simulation devices are idealized representations, but they are also systems themselves, possessing engineering constraints. Drawing on research in contemporary cognitive science that construes (...)
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    Feminist Interpretations of John Locke.Nancy J. Hirschmann & Kirstie Morna McClure (eds.) - 2007 - Pennsylvania State University Press.
    Essays by leading figures in feminist theory and philosophy on John Locke. Includes reprints of three early foundational feminist analyses of Locke with authors' contemporary reflections on their earlier work, as well as articles about Locke on class, women's work, religion, reproduction, masculinity, and money.
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  15. Serving Nature: Completing the Ecosystem Services Circle.Nancy J. Turner & Darcy Mathews - 2020 - In Heesoon Bai, David Chang & Charles Scott, A book of ecological virtues: living well in the anthropocene. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press.
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    What's Right with Positive Liberty: Agency, Autonomy, and the Other.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2020 - In Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock, Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor. Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 114-124.
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  17. Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2009 - Political Theory 37 (4):582-585.
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    Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2007 - Princeton University Press.
    In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social (...)
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    Liberal Conservativism, Once and Again: Locke’s “Essay on the Poor Law” and Contemporary US Welfare Reform.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2002 - Constellations 9 (3):335-355.
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    Faraday to Einstein: constructing meaning in scientific theories.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1984 - Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    PARTI The Philosophical Situation: A Critical Appraisal We must begin with the mistake and find out the truth in it. That is, we must uncover the source of ...
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    On legal proof.Nancy J. Dunham & Robert L. Birmingham - 1989 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (4):479 – 486.
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    Always Having to Say You're Sorry: an ethical response to making mistakes in professional practice.Nancy J. Crigger - 2004 - Nursing Ethics 11 (6):568-576.
    Efforts to decrease errors in health care are directed at prevention rather than at managing a situation when a mistake has occurred. Consequently, nurses and other health care providers may not know how to respond properly and may lack sufficient support to make a healthy recovery from the mental anguish and emotional suffering that often accompany making mistakes. This article explores the conceptualization of mistakes and the ethical response to making a mistake. There are three parts to an ethical response (...)
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  23. Theatereignis.J. -L. Nancy - 2003 - In Nikolaus Müller-Schöll & Philipp Schink, Ereignis: eine fundamentale Kategorie der Zeiterfahrung: Anspruch und Aporien. Bielefeld: Transcript.
     
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    (1 other version)Barriers and Models: Comments on Margolis and Giere.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:441 - 444.
    Giere's assessment is that the cognitive sciences, especially cognitive psychology, have much to offer the philosophy of science as it attempts to develop theories of the growth, development, and change of scientific knowledge as human activities. Margolis produces a model of scientific change by drawing from recent work in the cognitive sciences and attempts to show how this model explains salient cases of conceptual change. While agreeing with Giere's assessment, I argue that Margolis provides the wrong model both for scientific (...)
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    Towards understanding the nature of conflict of interest and its application to the discipline of nursing.Nancy J. Crigger - 2009 - Nursing Philosophy 10 (4):253-262.
    Most incidences of dishonesty in research, financial investments that promote personal financial gain, and kickback scandals begin as conflicts of interest (COI). Research indicates that healthcare professionals who maintain COI relationships make less optimal and more expensive patient care choices. The discovery of COI relationships also negatively impact patient and public trust. Many disciplines are addressing this professional issue, but little work has been done towards understanding and applying this moral category within a nursing context. Do COIs occur in nursing (...)
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  26. Conceptual change in science and in science education.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1989 - Synthese 80 (1):163 - 183.
    There is substantial evidence that traditional instructional methods have not been successful in helping students to restructure their commonsense conceptions and learn the conceptual structures of scientific theories. This paper argues that the nature of the changes and the kinds of reasoning required in a major conceptual restructuring of a representation of a domain are fundamentally the same in the discovery and in the learning processes. Understanding conceptual change as it occurs in science and in learning science will require the (...)
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    How Do Scientists Think? Contributions Toward a Cognitive Science of Science.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2025 - Topics in Cognitive Science 17 (1):7-33/.
    Scientific thinking is one of the most creative expressions of human cognition. This paper discusses my research contributions to the cognitive science of science. I have advanced the position that data on the cognitive practices of scientists drawn from extensive research into archival records of historical science or collected in extended ethnographic studies of contemporary science can provide valuable insight into the nature of scientific cognition and its relation to cognition in ordinary contexts. I focus on contributions of my research (...)
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    Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Faculty Fellowship Program.Nancy J. Kaufman & Charity Scott - 2016 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 44 (s1):97-106.
    This concluding essay offers reflections on core components of the faculty fellowship program, its outcomes and results, and program design and administration. Amid the current calls for reform in legal and other professional education, the lessons we learned and perspectives we gained during this fellowship program may be relevant to any faculty members and university administrations that are seeking to create more effective and engaged professional and graduate school programs, whatever may be their subject-matter discipline.
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    The process of science.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1990 - Erkenntnis 33 (1):121-129.
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    Rethinking the therapeutic misconception: social justice, patient advocacy, and cancer clinical trial recruitment in the US safety net.Nancy J. Burke - 2014 - BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1):68.
    Approximately 20% of adult cancer patients are eligible to participate in a clinical trial, but only 2.5-9% do so. Accrual is even less for minority and medically underserved populations. As a result, critical life-saving treatments and quality of life services developed from research studies may not address their needs. This study questions the utility of the bioethical concern with therapeutic misconception (TM), a misconception that occurs when research subjects fail to distinguish between clinical research and ordinary treatment, and therefore attribute (...)
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  31. Hybrid devices : embodiments of culture in biomedical engineering.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2017 - In Karine Chemla & Evelyn Fox Keller, Cultures without culturalism: the making of scientific knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press.
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  32. The method to meaning-a reply to Leplin-discussion.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1991 - In Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper & J. D. Trout, The Philosophy of Science. MIT Press. pp. 58--4.
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  33. Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2022 - Cambridge, MA: MIT.
    A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems using concepts, methods, materials, and other resources drawn primarily from engineering. They aim to understand these systems sufficiently to control or intervene in them. What Nersessian examines here is how cutting-edge (...)
  34. How do scientists think? Contributions toward a cognitive science of science.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2024 - Topics in Cognitive Science (00):1-27.
    In this article, I discuss and demonstrate how research into real‐world scientific problem‐solving provides a novel window on the mind and insight into the human capacity to design and utilize resource rich environments at the highly creative end of the cognitive spectrum.
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  35. A philosophical counseling approach to moral distress.Nancy J. Matchett - 2019 - Philosophical Practice: Journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association 14 (1).
    This paper completes an argument that the problem of moral distress offers philosophical counselors an opportunity to do work that is both socially useful and philosophically interesting in its own right. A previous Philosophical Practice article answered the question, What's Philosophical About Moral Distress? by conceptualizing it as a phenomenon that arises within a moral worldview (Matchett 2018). The present paper investigates ways in which a philosophical counseling response to moral distress might differ from the strategies deployed by the nursing (...)
     
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  36. Isn't All of Oncology Hermeneutic?Nancy J. Moules, David W. Jardine, Graham P. McCaffrey & Christopher B. Brown - 2013 - Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 2013 (1).
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    Concept formation and commensurability.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2001 - In Paul Hoyningen-Huene & Howard Sankey, Incommensurability and Related Matters. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 275--301.
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    The Sexual Division of Labor and the Split Paycheck.Nancy J. Hirschmann - 2016 - Hypatia 31 (3):651-667.
    This essay takes up an apparently minor idea of Susan Moller Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family—that employers should split the paycheck of wage-earning husbands between employees and their stay-at-home spouses—and suggests that it actually threatens to undermine Okin's entire argument by perpetuating the most central cause of women's inequality by Okin's own account: the sexual division of labor. Recognizing the vital contributions that Okin's seminal work made and the impact that it had on the field of feminist philosophy and (...)
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    Microtubules in the cerebral cortex: role in memory and consciousness.Nancy J. Woolf - 2006 - In Jack A. Tuszynski, The Emerging Physics of Consciousness. Springer Verlag. pp. 49--94.
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    (1 other version)Abstraction via generic modeling in concept formation in science.Nancy J. Nersessian - 2002 - Mind and Society 3 (1):129-154.
    Cases where analogy has played a significant role in the formation of a new scientific concept are well-documented. Yet, how is it that genuinely new representations can be constructed from existing representations? It is argued that the process of ‘generic modeling’ enables abstraction of features common to both the domain of the source of the analogy and of the target phenomena. The analysis focuses on James Clerk Maxwell's construction of the electromagnetic field concept. The mathematical representation Maxwell constructed turned out (...)
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    Conducting hermeneutic research: from philosophy to practice.Nancy J. Moules (ed.) - 2015 - New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
    <I>Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers who are novice to this research method or who wish to extend their knowledge. In 2009, the lead author of this proposed text was one of three co-founders of the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute. The institute was created (...)
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  42. Theological reflection and spiritual direction.Nancy J. Ault - 2013 - The Australasian Catholic Record 90 (1):81.
    Ault, Nancy J Spiritual direction is at risk in a society which is turning increasingly to personal feelings to validate experience and justify decision making. An appeal to feelings and emotions enables marketers to sell religion and spirituality as consumer products. As a product among many, the wider contexts of religion and spirituality may fade from consciousness and be lost. In such a 'pick and mix' culture, as well as losing sight of the embodied nature of understanding, what may (...)
     
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  43. Humanization and the Politics of God: The Koinonia Ethics of Paul Lehmann.Nancy J. Duff - 1993
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    Sexual Dimorphism and the Value of Feminist Bioethics.Nancy J. Matchett - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (7):18-20.
    Robert Sparrow has recently claimed that unless there are reasons to think the sexed nature of human beings is normatively significant, current trends in bioethical reasoning force the conclusion that “we may do well to move toward a ‘post sex’ humanity” (American Journal of Bioethics 10: 7 (2010)). This commentary uses basic methodological principles from feminist ethics to argue that he has, in fact, given no reasons to think that a 'post sex' humanity is any more valuable than gender diverse (...)
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    Revisioning the political: feminist reconstructions of traditional concepts in western political theory.Nancy J. Hirschmann & Christine Di Stefano (eds.) - 1996 - Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
    Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts most central to the tradition of political philosophy. The goal is nothing less than the construction of a blueprint for a positive feminist theory.Many of these papers are completely new; others are extensions of important earlier work; two are reprints of classic papers. The result is a progress report on the continuing feminist (...)
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    "Why wasn't Lorentz Einstein?" An Examination of the Scientific Method of H. A. Lorentz.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1986 - Centaurus 29 (3):205-242.
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    The method to "meaning": A reply to Leplin.Nancy J. Nersessian - 1991 - Philosophy of Science 58 (4):678-686.
    In his article, "Is Essentialism Unscientific?" (1988), Jarrett Leplin claims that I do not have sufficient grounds for rejecting the customary "philosophical method of discovery" that allows for the direct transfer of theories developed in the philosophy of language to science. While admitting that all attempts at transfer thus far have failed, he still maintains that method is sound. I argue that the wholesale failure of these attempts is reason enough to suspect the method and to try to devise one (...)
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    Why is 'incommensurability' a problem?Nancy J. Nersessian - 1982 - Acta Biotheoretica 31 (4):205-218.
    The origins of the ‘ incommensurability problem’ and its central aspect, the ‘ meaning variance thesis’ are traced to the successive collapse of several distinctions maintained by the standard empiricist account of meaning in scientific theories. The crucial distinction is that between a conceptual structure and a theory. The ‘thesis’ and the ‘problem’ follow from critiques of this distinction by Duhem, Quine and Feyerabend. It is maintained that, rather than revealing the ‘problem’, the arguments leading to it simply show the (...)
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  49. Genre fiction and "the origin of the work of art".Nancy J. Holland - 2002 - Philosophy and Literature 26 (1):216-223.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 216-223 [Access article in PDF] Notes and Fragments Genre Fiction and "The Origin of the Work of Art" Nancy J. Holland I FIRST, A CONFESSION. Like, I suspect, many of my readers, I am an unpublished fiction writer. Unlike most of the closet fiction writers in academia, however, I write genre fiction. The question that immediately follows is how that writing is related (...)
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  50. Pretty Much Everything You Need and a Few Things You Want.Nancy J. Matchett - 2014 - New Philosopher:50-51.
    An application of Aristotle's conception of happiness.
     
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