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Noretta Koertge (above), an IUB professor of history and philosophy of science, has been elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her academic work includes writings on the relevance and application of Sir Karl Popper’s (inset) philosophy of critical rationalism to research in social science.
Popper | While a doctoral student at the University of
London, England, in the late 1960s, Noretta Koertge was drawn to the
lectures of Sir Karl Popper, who was teaching at that time at the London
School of Economics. Popper (1902-1994) is regarded as one of the greatest
20th-century philosophers of science.
In part for her scholarship and writing about Popper’s theories, Koertge, an Indiana University Bloomington professor of history and philosophy of science, has been elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was honored, along with other new Fellows from throughout the country, last Saturday (Feb. 19) in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the AAAS. The organization cited her work on Popper’s theories, as well as her critiques of postmodern theories of science and technology. She has written about the relevance and application of Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism to research in social science, including sex research, and to issues in science education. Most recently, she edited the 1998 volume, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Post-modernist Myths About Science. She is also co-author of the 1994 book, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales From the Strange World of Women’s Studies, has written several textbooks and two novels. Koertge has been on the IU faculty since 1970 and last June was named editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Science, published by the Philosophy of Science Association and considered the leading international journal in the field. The history of philosophy and science program at IUB has a strong national reputation for its combination of scientific and humanistic inquiry. Koertge joins four departmental colleagues who have attained the prestigious designation, an honor first conferred in 1874 and which now includes some 3,500 scholars, including more than 168 Nobel Prize laureates and more than 58 Pulitzer Prize winners. Michael Friedman, department chairman, received the AAAS rank in 1997. Other Fellows named from the IUB department are the late Richard Westfall (1983) and emeritus professor Edward Grant (1984). |
