Rebecca Goldstein

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I lived Orthodox for a long time. My husband was Orthodox. Because I didn't want to be hypocritical with our kids, I kept everything. I was torn like a character in a Russian novel. It lasted through college. I remember leaving a class on mysticism in tears because I had forsaken God. That was probably my last burst of religious passion. Then it went away, and I was a happy little atheist. [33]

In 2007, Goldstein married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. [34]

Awards and fellowships

Bibliography

Fiction

  • Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010)
  • Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics (2000)
  • Mazel (1995)
  • The Dark Sister (1993)
  • The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989)
  • The Mind-Body Problem (1983)

Short stories

  • Strange Attractors: Stories (1993)

Nonfiction

  • Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away (2014)
  • Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (2006)
  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2005)

See also

References

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  2. Kadish, Rachel (2012). "The Physics of Fiction, the Music of Philosophy: an Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein". Ploughshares. Emerson College.
  3. Interview with Rebecca Goldstein (2006). "Novelist Rebecca Goldstein - The Mind-Body Problem". www.lukeford.net.
  4. Communications, NYU Web. "Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Named 2014 National Humanities Medal Recipient". nyu.edu.
  5. Lightman, Alan (15 March 2003). "Art That Transfigures Science". The New York Times.
  6. 1 2 3 Schillinger, Liesl. "Prove It". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  7. Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger (14 April 2014). "How Philosophy Makes Progress" via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  8. Anthony, Andrew (19 October 2014). "Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: "Science is our best answer, but it takes a philosophical argument to prove that"". The Observer via The Guardian.
  9. "Feminism, Religion, and 'Mattering'". www.secularhumanism.org. 26 July 2019.
  10. "The Machinery of Moral Progress: An Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – TheHumanist.com". 27 August 2014.
  11. Grossberg, Lawrence (1992). We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture . Routledge.
  12. Grossberg, Lawrence (2010). Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. Duke University Press.
  13. Kashak, Ellyn (2013). "The Mattering Map: Integrating The Complexities of Knowledge, Experience and Meaning". Psychology of Women Quarterly. 37 (4): 436–443. doi:10.1177/0361684313480839. S2CID   144899088.
  14. Loewenstein, Meine, G., K. "On Mattering Maps" in Understanding Choice, Explaining Behavior: Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog, Jon Elster, Olav Gjelsvik, Aanund Hyland, and Karl Moene (Eds.). Oslo, Norway: Oslo Academic Press. pp. 153–175.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. "Rebecca Newberger Goldstein". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2 September 2015.
  16. "Our Lab | Barnard Year of Science". yearofscience.barnard.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
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  19. Reichel, Sabine (May 21, 1989). "Of Jews and Germans: The Conflict Unresolved : THE LATE-SUMMER PASSION OF A WOMAN OF MIND". Los Angeles Times .
  20. Goldstein, Rebecca (1993). Strange Attractors: Stories. Viking.
  21. Dickstein, Lore (October 29, 1995). "World of Our Mothers". The New York Times .
  22. 1 2 "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  23. McAlpin, Heller (November 23, 2010). "People Are Talking About These Five Books". National Public Radio .
  24. 1 2 Kehe, Marjorie (1 December 2010). "Best books of 2010: fiction". The Christian Science Monitor.
  25. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (December 22, 2015). "Flourishing in the Company of Like-Minded People". The Humanist.
  26. Jacoby, Susan. "Atheists – naughty and nice – should define themselves". The Washington Post.
  27. Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, "Distinguished Fellows for 2013-2014 Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine "
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  29. "Global Future Councils". World Economic Forum.
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  32. "Rebecca Goldstein". www.faithstreet.com. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  33. 1 2 3 Luke Ford, "Interview with Novelist Rebecca Goldstein - The Mind-Body Problem", conducted by phone April 11, 2006, transcript posted at lukeford.net
  34. Crace, John (June 17, 2008). "Interview: Harvard University's Steven Pinker". The Guardian. London.
  35. "President Obama Awards 2014 National Humanities Medal". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2 September 2015.
  36. "Rebecca Goldstein receives the Richard Dawkins Award at the Atheist Alliance of America convention
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  46. "Koret Foundation -". Koret Foundation.
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  48. "Rebecca Goldstein – MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
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Rebecca Goldstein
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Born
Rebecca Newberger

(1950-02-23) February 23, 1950 (age 75)
Spouses
  • (m. 1969;div. 1999)
  • (m. 2007)
Children
Education
Alma mater Barnard College (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)