Rebecca Goldstein
Author of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
About the Author
Rebecca Goldstein graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in the philosophy of science. She has taught philosophy at Barnard. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography)
Works by Rebecca Goldstein
Strange attractions 1 copy
Associated Works
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributor — 1,019 copies
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributor — 792 copies
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (2015) — Contributor; Contributor — 140 copies
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Contributor — 13 copies
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- Other names
- Newberger Goldstein, Rebecca
Newberger, Rebecca (birth name) - Birthdate
- 1950-02-23
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Truro, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Princeton University (PhD|Philosophy|1977)
Barnard College (AB summa cum laude|1972) - Occupations
- philosopher
university professor
novelist - Relationships
- Nagel, Thomas (dissertation advisor)
Pinker, Steven (spouse)
Love, Yael Goldstein (daughter) - Organizations
- Harvard University
Dartmouth College
Trinity College
Brandeis University
New College of the Humanities [London, UK] - Awards and honors
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
Whiting Foundation Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship (1996)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Radcliffe Fellowship
Humanist Laureate, International Academy of Humanism (2008) (show all 8)
Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College (2008)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
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- Popularity
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It’s funny but my family visited Spain recently and while we spent so much time taking in the muslim influence in the country, the history of torture, of burning people at the stake, converting Jews to Catholicism, and rescinding their citizenship was wholly missing from the story.
While Cordoba, Girona, and Barcelona were great centres of Jewish life and letters, including the rise of Kaballa mysticism.
Goldstein see s this history and the subsequent rise of the Sephardim community in Amsterdam as central to Spinoza’s inspired rationalism.… (more)