Noretta Koertge
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"According to Harding, rape is Bacon's metaphor for and model of the experimental method. For the historian Carolyn Merchant, "the interrogation of witches" by torture (DON, 172)” is, instead, Bacon's "symbol for the ..." --A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science (1998) by Noretta Koertge |
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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.
Selected publications
- Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies (with Daphne Patai)
- Koertge, Noretta eds (1998) A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, Oxford University Press,
