Rebecca Goldstein

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 the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ) and the Barnard College. Goldstein was created using the Thesis Reduction, realism, and the mind in 1976 received his doctorate at Thomas Nagel at Princeton University. Already her first novel, The mind-body problem- treated a philosophical problem. She has written biographies of Kurt Gödel and Spinoza.

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

Goldstein was honored in 1996 with a MacArthur Fellowship. 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.

Goldstein married in 1969 Sheldon Goldstein, with whom she has two children and was divorced from in 1999, and is married to Steven Pinker since 2004.

Writings (selection )

• The mind -body problem: a novel. New York: Random House, 1983 The love in logical space: novel. German by Gesine Strempel. Munich: Dt. Paperback -Verl. 2002

• The daughter of the Rabbi: A Novel. From the Amerikan. by Einar Schlereth. Munich: Goldmann 1999

• The properties of light: a novel of love, betrayal and quantum physics. Dt. by Gesine Strempel. Munich: Dt. Paperback -Verl. 2003

• Kurt Godel: a century mathematician and of great explorers. From the Amerikan. by Thorsten Schmidt. Munich; Zurich: Piper 2006

• 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Novel. From the Amerikan. by Friedrich Mader. Munich: Blessing 2006