Noretta Koertge
Noretta Koertge | |
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| 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 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[]
- 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.[5]
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
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2011-11-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Faderman, L.; Penguin (1991). Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-century America. Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Columbia University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-231-07488-9.
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- Philosophers of science
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- Critics of postmodernism
- Academic journal editors
- American women philosophers
- Alumni of the University of London
- Indiana University Bloomington faculty
- 20th-century American women