Noretta Koertge

Noretta Koertge
Alma mater	University of London
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Indiana University Bloomington
Thesis	A study of relations between scientific theories: a test of the general correspondence principle (1969)
Main interests	History and philosophy of science

Noretta Koertge is an American philosopher of science noted for her work on Karl Popper and scientific rationality.

Career

She worked since 1981 as a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and is now an Emeritus Professorship. She was editor-in-chief of the journal (1999–2004) Philosophy of Science, her election as a Fellow, in 1999, by American Association for the Advancement of Science and her being Editor-in-Chief of The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2004–2008). She is also a novelist.

Selected publications

• Patai, Daphne; Koertge, Noretta (1994). Professing feminism: Cautionary tales from the strange world of women's studies. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09821-7. OCLC 30544826.
• Koertge, Noretta, ed. (1998). A house built on sand: Exposing postmodernist myths about science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-802776-8.

Novels

• Koertge, Noretta (1981). Who was that masked woman. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-87033-7. OCLC 7206437.
• Koertge, Noretta (1984). Valley of the Amazons. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-83608-5.