Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is the author of six novels, including Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010), and three nonfiction works, the latest being Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away (2014). She has a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and while in graduate school was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship. In 1996 Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow, and was awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal, the country’s highest honor in the humanities.
Posts by Rebecca Goldstein
Flourishing in the Company of Like-Minded People
I WAS, UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, unaware of the existence of the secular humanist community, organized around the values of rationality, free inquiry, and the... Read More
Speaking Prose All Our Lives
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Oh, really? So when I say: Nicole bring me my slippers and fetch my nightcap,” is that prose? PHILOSOPHY MASTER: Most clearly.... Read More
A Confraternity of the Fatherless
Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and acclaimed author whose books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, The Dark Sister, and her latest, 36 Arguments... Read More