Noretta Koertge

Noretta Koertge

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. Her notability is evident from her having been editor-and-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

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

  1. ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/ Indiana University: Noretta Koertge's homepage (Accessed Oct 2011)
  2. ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/NDSB_preface.pdf The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Introduction
  3. ^ Koertge, N (2005) Scientific values and civic virtues, Oxford University Press
  4. ^ http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Scrutinizing_Feminist_Epistemology_1637.html

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