Noretta Koertge
Noretta Koertge | |
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| Alma mater | University of London |
| 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 a philosopher of science noted for her work on Karl Popper and scientific rationality. She worked since 1981 as a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and 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.[1][2][3][4]
Selected publications
- Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies (with Daphne Patai)[5]
- Koertge, Noretta eds (1998) A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, Oxford University Press,
Novels
- Koertge, Noretta (1981) Who Was That Masked Woman?, St. Martin's Press
- Koertge, Noretta (1984) Valley of the Amazons, St. Martin's Press
References
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/ Indiana University: Noretta Koertge's homepage (Accessed Oct 2011)
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/NDSB_preface.pdf The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Introduction
- ^ Koertge, N (2005) Scientific values and civic virtues, Oxford University Press
- ^ http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Scrutinizing_Feminist_Epistemology_1637.html
- ^ Daphne Patai (1994). Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies. BasicBooks. ISBN 978-0-465-09821-7.