Professor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is one of the most influential thinkers in the world of public philosophy.

Amongst many other philosophical texts, Goldstein is the author of The Mind-Body Problem,

betraying Spinoza the Renegade Jew who gave us modernity,

36 arguments for the existence of God, a work of fiction,

and Plato at the Googleplex, Why Philosophy Won't Go away?

For many, Goldstein's talent for bringing philosophy to life

through her wit and beautiful storytelling is unparalleled.

In the words of A.C. Grayling,

like Plato, Goldstein has both literary and philosophical gifts of the highest order. The combination

is superb. The list of Goldstein's accomplishments is exhaustingly extensive. Let us just mention

five of many. Professor Goldstein was named MacArthur Fellow, popularly known as

the Genius Award, in 1996, and elected the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

In 2011, she was designated Freethought Heroin by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and Humanist

of the Year by the American Humanist Association, and in 2015, awarded the

National Humanities Medal by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House.

The reason cited?

For bringing philosophy into conversation with culture.

In scholarship, Dr. Goldstein has eludicated the ideas of Spinoza and Godel, while in fiction

she deploys wit and drama to help us

understand the great human conflict between thoughts and feeling. To find out more about Rebecca

Newberger Goldstein, and for links to all of her work, you can find further information on our website.

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