Rebecca Goldstein

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Rebecca Goldstein , also: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950 in White Plains , New York ), is an American philosopher and author .

Life

Rebecca Newberger attended City College of New York , University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Barnard College . Goldstein received his doctorate with Thomas Nagel at Princeton University in 1976 with the dissertation Reduction, realism, and the mind . Her first novel, The mind-body problem, dealt with a philosophical problem. She has written biographies about the philosopher Kurt Gödel and about Spinoza .

Goldstein has taught philosophy at Barnard College , Columbia University , Rutgers University, and Trinity College in Hartford . She was invited as a visiting professor at various universities, and in 2006 she was a Guggenheim Fellow . Goldstein writes for the New York Times Book Review .

Goldstein was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. In 2005 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The Emerson College in Boston in 2008 awarded her an honorary doctorate. For 2014 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal .

Goldstein married Sheldon Goldstein in 1969 , with whom she has two children and from whom she divorced in 1999. In a 2006 interview, she said:

" 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. "

She has been married to the experimental psychologist Steven Pinker since 2007 .

Fonts (selection)

Biographies
  • Incompleteness. The proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel . WW Norton, New York 2005, ISBN 0-393-05169-2 .
    • Kurt Gödel. Mathematician of the century and great explorer. translated by Thorsten Schmidt. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-04884-6 .
  • Betraying Spinoza. The renegade Jew who gave us modernity (Jewish encounters). Schocken, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8052-1159-4 .
Novels
  • The mind-body problem. A novel . Penguin, New York 1993, ISBN 0-394-52474-8 . (EA New York 1983)
  • The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1989, ISBN 0-374-18406-2 .
  • Mazel . Viking, New York 1995, ISBN 0-670-85648-7 .
  • Properties of light. A novel of love, betrayal and quantum physics . Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass. 2000, ISBN 0-395-98659-1 .
    • German: The properties of light. A novel about love, betrayal and quantum physics . translated by Gesine Strempel. Dtv, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-24349-X .
  • 36 arguments for the existence of god. A work of fiction . Pantheon Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-37818-7 .
    • Translated into German by Friedrich Mader: 36 arguments for the existence of God. Novel . Blessing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-423-4 . (EA Munich 2006)
Non-fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein , website
  2. ^ Luke Ford, "Interview with Novelist Rebecca Goldstein - The Mind-Body Problem" , conducted by phone April 11, 2006, transcript posted at lukeford.net
  3. ↑ John Crace: Interview: Harvard University's Steven Pinker . In: The Guardian , June 17, 2008. 
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Rebecca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newberger Goldstein, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH White Plains (New York)