Rebecca Goldstein
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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 nonfiction.
She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University and is sometimes grouped with novelists, such as Richard Powers and Alan Lightman, who create fiction that is knowledgeable of, and sympathetic toward, science.In her three nonfiction works she has shown an affinity for philosophical rationalism, as well as a conviction that philosophy, like science, makes progress and that scientific progress is itself supported by philosophical arguments.
She has also stressed the role that secular philosophical reason has made in moral advances. Increasingly, in her talks and interviews, she has been exploring what she has called "mattering theory" as an alternative to traditional utilitarianism.
This theory is a continuation of her idea of "the mattering map", first suggested in her novel The Mind–Body Problem.
The concept of the mattering map has been widely adopted in contexts as diverse as cultural criticism, psychology, and behavioral economics.Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow and has received the National Humanities Medal, the National Jewish Book Award, and numerous other honors.
Early life and education
Goldstein, born Rebecca Newberger, grew up in White Plains, New York. She was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. She has one older brother, who is an Orthodox rabbi, and a younger sister, Sarah Stern. An older sister, Mynda Barenholtz, died in 2001. She did her undergraduate work at City College of New York, UCLA, and Barnard College, where she graduated as valedictorian in 1972. After earning her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, where she studied with Thomas Nagel and wrote a dissertation titled "Reduction, Realism, and the Mind", she returned to Barnard as a professor of philosophy.
Personal life
Goldstein married her first husband, physicist Sheldon Goldstein, in 1969, and they divorced in 1999. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and poet Danielle Blau. In a 2006 interview with Luke Ford, Goldstein said:
In 2007, she married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
Career
Goldstein published her first book, The Mind-Body Problem, a serio-comic story about emotion and intelligence, as well as articles on mathematical physics, intellectual diversity, and Jewish tradition and identity. Goldstein wrote the book to "insert 'true life" in direct relation to the intellectual conflict. In short, I wanted to write a philosophically based book.
Her second book, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989), was also set in academia, but with a much darker tone. The Dark Sister (1993), William James' third book, was something of a departure: a postmodern fictionalization of family and career concerns. Strange Attractors (1993), a National Jewish Honor Book and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, she continued it with a short-story collection. In two of Goldstein's collection's books, Mazel (1995), which received the National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, a fictional mother, daughter, and granddaughter were introduced.
Properties of Light (2000), a ghost story about love, betrayal, and quantum physics, was born as a result of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010), her most recent book, delves into continuing debates over faith and reason through the life of a psychologist who has published an atheist best-seller, although his life has been populated with secular interpretations of religious subjects such as miscarriage, divine inspiration, and the search for immortality. The book also contains a long non-fiction appendix (attributed to the novel's protagonist) that details 36 common and modern arguments for the existence of God, as well as their claimed denials. It was named as one of its "five favorite books of 2010" by National Public Radio, and The Christian Science Monitor named it as the country's best book of fiction.
Incompleteness: Kurt Gödel's Protest and Paradox (2006) Goldstein has written two biographical studies: Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel's (2005), and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (2006). Betraying Spinoza brought her continuing interest in Jewish history, culture, and identity alongside an increasing focus on secularism, humanism, and atheism. Goldstein has referred to the book, which incorporates elements of memoir, biography, tradition, and philosophical analysis, as "the eighth book I'd published, but [the] first in which I took the long-awaited and irrevocable step of integrating my private and public selves." It was a well-known woman in the humanist movement, with less partisan rhetoric and a greater representation of women. The American Humanist Association and "Freethought Heroine" by the Freedom from Religion Foundation named her as "Human of the Year" in 2011.
Why Philosophy Will Not Go Away, an investigation into philosophy's historical roots and current relevance, was released by the Googleplex in 2014. The book alternates between expository chapters on Plato's life and visions in the context of ancient Greece and modern dialogues in which Plato's legacy is revived in the 21st century, as shown by contemporary writers including a software engineer at Google headquarters, an affective neuroscientist, and others.
Goldstein has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, and since 2014, she has been a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London. She served as a visiting professor in New York University's English department in 2016. She has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University, Yale University's Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature" at Yale University in 2011. She serves on the Secular Coalition for America's Council on Values of the World Economic Forum and on the Secular Coalition for America's advisory board.
Goldstein's writing has appeared in chapters in several edited books, including The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Tikkun, Commentary, and in the Washington Post's "On Faith" section.
Awards and fellowships
- 2014 National Humanities Medal (presented September 10, 2015, at the White House by President Barack Obama)
- 2014 Richard Dawkins Award
- 2013 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College
- 2013 Moment Magazine Creativity Award
- 2012 Franke Visiting Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
- 2011 Humanist of the Year awarded April 2011 by the American Humanist Association
- 2011 Freethought Heroine awarded October 2011 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation
- 2011 Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute
- Best Fiction Book of 2010 ("36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction"), Christian Science Monitor
- Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College, 2008
- Humanist Laureate, awarded by the International Academy of Humanism, 2008
- Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2006–2007
- Guggenheim Fellow, 2006–2007
- Koret Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought, 2006, for Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave Us Modernity
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005
- Honorary Doctorate, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
- MacArthur Fellow, 1996
- National Jewish Book Award, 1995, for Mazel
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 1995, for Mazel
- National Jewish Book Award for her book of short stories, Strange Attractors
- Graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy
- While at Princeton University, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship
- Whiting Award, 1991