Books and Edited Volumes
- Oreskes, Naomi, The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science, Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Oreskes, Naomi and James R. Fleming, eds. 2000. “Perspectives on Geophysics,” Special Issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 31B, September 2000.
- Oreskes, Naomi, ed., with Homer E. Le Grand, 2001. Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Boulder: Westview Press), paperback edition February 2003. [Named by Library Journal as one of the “Best Science and Technology Books of 2002,” and Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles, 2003, and adopted as a core text by ERESE: Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education (http://earthref.org/ERESE).
- Oreskes, Naomi,
in prep. Science on a Mission: American Oceanography in the Cold War
and Beyond, under contract to University of Chicago Press, expected
submission Summer/Fall 2006.
Book Chapters
- Oreskes, Naomi, 1997. “Testing models of natural systems: Can it be done?,” in Structures and Norms in Science: Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, edited by M.L. Chiara et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997) pp. 207-217.
- Oreskes, Naomi,
2000. “Why predict? Historical perspectives on prediction in the
earth sciences,” in Prediction: Decision-making and the Future
of Nature, edited by Daniel Sarewitz, Roger Pielke, Jr., and Radford
Byerly, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Island Press), pp. 23-40.
Reprinted as Oreskes, Naomi, 2003. “The changing role of prediction in the earth sciences,” in History and Philosophy of Science for African Undergraduates, edited by Helen Lauer (Ibadan, Nigeria: Hope Publications), pp. 358-368. - Oreskes, Naomi, 2000. “Why believe a computer? Models, measures, and meaning in the natural world,” in The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, edited by Jill S. Schneiderman (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.), pp. 70-82.
- Oreskes, Naomi and Kenneth Belitz, 2001. “Philosophical Issues in Model Assessment,” in Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science, edited by M.G. Anderson and P.D. Bates (London: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.), pp. 23-41.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2002. “Gravity surveys in the ‘permanent’ ocean basins: An instrumental chink in a theoretical suit of armor,” in Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond, edited by Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock (Seattle: University of Washington Press), pp. 502-510.
- Oreskes, Naomi and Ronald E. Doel, 2002. “Physics and chemistry of the earth,” in The Cambridge History of Science, Volume V: Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, edited by Mary Jo Nye, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 538-552.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2003. “The role of quantitative models in science,” in Models in Ecosystem Science, edited by Charles D. Canham, Jonathan J. Cole, and William K. Lauenroth (Princeton: Princeton University Press), pp. 13-31.
- Munk, Walter, Naomi Oreskes, and Richard Muller, 2004. “Gordon J.F. MacDonald,” National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs 84: 3-26.
- Oreskes, Naomi, in press., “From scaling to simulation: Changing meanings and ambitions of models in the Earth sciences,” accepted for publication, in Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, and Exemplary Narratives, edited by Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, Duke University Press.
- Oreskes, Naomi, in press, “The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we’re not wrong?” to appear in Climate Change, Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman eds., under contract to MIT Press.
- Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik Conway, in review, “Deny, Deny, Deny: How to Sow Confusion about Climate Change,” Agnotology: The Social Production of Ignorance, edited by Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, under consideration at Stanford University Press.
Selected Papers and Essays (Science Studies)
Selected Papers and Essays (Earth Science)
- Oreskes, Naomi and Einaudi, M.T., 1990. “Origin of LREE-enriched hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam, Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia,” Economic Geology, vol. 85, no. 1, p. 1-28.
- Oreskes, Naomi and Einaudi, M.T., 1992. “Origin of hydrothermal fluids at Olympic Dam: Preliminary results from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes,” Economic Geology, vol. 87, no. 1, p. 64-90.
- Hitzman, M.W., Oreskes, Naomi, and Einaudi, M.T., 1992. “Geologic characteristics and tectonic setting of Proterozoic Fe-REE deposits,” Precambrian Research, vol. 58, p. 241-287.
- Rhodes, A.L., Oreskes, Naomi, and Sheets, Sossity, 1999. “Geology and REE geochemistry of the magnetite deposits at El Laco, Chile.” Economic Geology Special Publication No. 7: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central Andes, pp. 299-332.
- Rhodes, A.L., and Oreskes, Naomi, 1999. “Oxygen isotope composition of magnetite deposits at El Laco, Chile: Evidence of formation from isotopically heavy fluids,” Economic Geology Special Publication No. 7: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Central Andes, pp. 333-351.
Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Article and miscellany (excluding abstracts)
- Oreskes, Naomi 2002. “Continental Drift,” Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, edited by Michael C. MacCracken and John S. Perry (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons), 321-325.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2003. “Stepping Forward Too Far? [Review of ‘Prematurity in Scientific Discovery, edited by Ernest B. Hook]. Science 300: 1094-1095, and Reply to Discussion of Prematurity in Science by Hook, Science 301: 1045-1046.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2004. “Shaking Up Seismology” [Review of The Big One by Jake Page and Charles Officer, Nature 431:1038.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2004. “A Call for a Collective” [Review of Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy by Bruno Latour], Science 305: 1241-1242.
- Oreskes, Naomi, 2005. “Anti-realism in government” [Review of The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney], Science 310 (7 October 2005): 56.
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