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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction.
Learn about Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a MacArthur Fellow and award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Explore her latest book, Plato at the Googleplex, a philosophical dialogue that engages with Plato's ideas in the 21st century.
Learn about the life and achievements of Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a philosopher, novelist, and MacArthur Fellow. Explore her books on philosophy, science, and literature, such as Incompleteness, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex.
In awarding her the prize, the MacArthur Foundation described her work in the following words: "Rebecca Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling.
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Explore the author's fiction and nonfiction works, ranging from philosophy, science, and religion to love, betrayal, and quantum physics. Find out about her upcoming events and book tour dates.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist who explores the ideas of Spinoza, Gödel, and atheism in her fiction and nonfiction. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2014 for bringing philosophy into conversation with culture and for her contributions to the humanities.
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and the author of five novels, including Properties of Light (Houghton Mifflin, 2000); a collection of short stories, Strange Attractors (Viking, 1993); and two books of nonfiction, most recently Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Schocken, 2006).
